Sunday, February 1, 2009
Cardinal Mahoney and honest-services wire fraud (!!)
Putting aside the serious and interesting church-autonomy questions, this use of the wire-fraud statute strikes me (and, I gather from the news, many others) as big-time prosecutorial grandstanding and overreaching.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2009/02/cardinal-mahoney-and-honestservices-wire-fraud-.html