Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U.S.C. §1346

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one’s position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U.S.C. §1346. 2. Whether deception that deprives a person of “potentially valuable economic information,” without more, can constitute “money or property” fraud under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, 18 U.S.C. §1341 and §1343.