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Honest Services Fraud Retrial? - Christopher Wright
 
  by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/05/12 10:19 am | updated: 01/05/12 10:19 am
 
Former Philadelphia City Council staffer Christopher Wright, former chief of staff to the recently retired at-large councilman Jack Kelly, had been convicted in 2009 of what's called "honest services fraud," for helping a developer who was giving him a rent-free apartment.

But last year, the US Supreme Court rejected one component of the honest services fraud law as too vague, and now a federal appeals court has, in turn, thrown out Wright's conviction. Now, he's waiting to see if he'll face retrial.




"In essence, it boils down to the fact that the jury was told certain conduct was criminal, when it’s actually not criminal," says Wright’s attorney, Lisa Mathewson.

Though no final decision has been made, assistant US attorney Robert Zauzmer says a retrial is likely for Wright, as well as for a businessman and a lawyer whose convictions in the case were also overturned.

"I don’t see any reason that we wouldn’t be retrying it, given that we have a strong case and given that the evidence is there," Zauzmer said this morning.

Wright’s corruption conviction is one of dozens nationwide that have been overturned because of the US Supreme Court decision. That ruling held that honest services fraud can only involve bribery of a public official, and not instances in which there was a simply conflict of interest
 
 
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