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20 Oct 2023, 3:54 am
This includes his prosecution of the former governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell (R), which was reversed in a unanimous 8-0 decision by the Supreme Court in 2016. [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 5:00 am
Smith was part of the prosecution team that convicted former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) on federal corruption charges in 2014. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 1:59 pm
During his time there, the Section pursued several high-profile prosecutions, including the prosecutions of former CIA officer Jeff Sterling for leaking classified information and obstructing justice, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for honest services fraud (a conviction later overturned by the Supreme Court), and former Rep. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 4:00 am
Some state courts have reined in the emergency and regulatory powers governors have wielded against the virus. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 2:45 am
In McDonnell v. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 3:30 am
We will also have a bonus/holiday episode with Hank Asbill discussing the fascinating trial and appeal involving Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell that will likely air on December 22. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 2:45 am
Vacating the conviction of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, the Court held that an official act is a decision or action on a question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy that involves a formal exercise of governmental power, is specific and focused, and is either pending or may by law be brought before a public official.[7] It was this more robust definition of “official act” that caused the court to reverse the former… [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 8:13 am
Three and a half years ago, the Supreme Court gutted public-corruption charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 5:00 am
In a 2016 opinion overturning the bribery conviction of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, for example, the Supreme Court cautioned that an expansive reading of the criminal bribery statute “would raise significant constitutional concerns” because it “could cast a pall of potential prosecution over” public officials and would put federal prosecutors in the position of determining and regulating “the permissible scope of… [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 10:00 am
That is precisely what they did when the court overturned the conviction of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts while he sought to help a wealthy pharmaceutical developer pass off some R&D costs to the citizens of Virginia. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 10:19 am
Three years ago, the Supreme Court gutted public corruption charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 11:03 am
When I sat down after my 25 minutes of argument representing former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, I figured the most stressful part of the case was over. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 9:33 am
A case like that of former Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia brings out the point that a politician may face investigation for behavior that disqualifies him for office but need not land him in prison. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 3:18 am
In 2016, the Court overturned former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell’s conviction when it said prosecutors too broadly defined corruption charges to include official acts such as setting up meetings. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 11:00 am
While at that firm, he argued in the Supreme Court on behalf of (among others) former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and the Little Sisters of the Poor. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 11:00 am
In its unanimous ruling just last year overturning former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction on multiple public corruption charges, the Supreme Court was ultimately swayed not by “tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns” but by the need to tamp down on the potentially unbounded construction of federal law. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 8:52 pm
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed with Silver’s contention that jury instructions in his trial were erroneous in light of the decision handed down in McDonnell v. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 7:56 am
During his stint in private practice, he argued several high-profile cases at the court, including former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell’s successful challenge to his bribery conviction, a bottling company’s challenge to the constitutionality of recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, and a challenge to the accommodation offered by the federal government to religious nonprofits that objected to providing their female… [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 6:41 am
Robert McDonnell, a ruling that legal experts feared would make prosecuting public corruption cases more difficult. [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 12:20 pm
In 2014, the Federal Government indicted former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, on bribery charges. [read post]
