http://business-ethics.com/2010/05/23/1819-u-s-supreme-court-nears-ruling-on-honest-services-law/ The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:28:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://business-ethics.com/2010/05/23/1819-u-s-supreme-court-nears-ruling-on-honest-services-law/comment-page-1/#comment-1516 Joan Kominski Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:24:17 +0000 http://business-ethics.com/?p=3181#comment-1516 Oh, really? Let's then give the government powers to prosecute all citizens as they wish. Forget the Constitution - why would you need Bill of Rights if government only prosecutes "repolsive evil-doers"? Do you really want to live in the country where the government solely desides whether or not to put in jail a person whos otherwise innocent behavior is criminalized by a whim of a prosecutor? Oh, really? Let's then give the government powers to prosecute all citizens as they wish. Forget the Constitution - why would you need Bill of Rights if government only prosecutes "repolsive evil-doers"? Do you really want to live in the country where the government solely desides whether or not to put in jail a person whos otherwise innocent behavior is criminalized by a whim of a prosecutor?

]]> http://business-ethics.com/2010/05/23/1819-u-s-supreme-court-nears-ruling-on-honest-services-law/comment-page-1/#comment-1485 Charles Fleeman Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:03:12 +0000 http://business-ethics.com/?p=3181#comment-1485 It's silly to think that an employee would ever face criminal prosecution for calling in sick to go to a ball game. Lawyers who say that simply lack common sense, or any sense. The honest services statute has been and only ever will be used to punish repulsive, high-stakes evil-doers who often undertake their schemes upon the belief that everyone is doing it and the law will never catch up with them. The gravity of the crime is the operative fact. It's silly to think that an employee would ever face criminal prosecution for calling in sick to go to a ball game. Lawyers who say that simply lack common sense, or any sense. The honest services statute has been and only ever will be used to punish repulsive, high-stakes evil-doers who often undertake their schemes upon the belief that everyone is doing it and the law will never catch up with them. The gravity of the crime is the operative fact.

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