honest-services-fraud
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-756 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h… |
| 25-5985 | Anne M. Lynch v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instruction prosecutorial-discretion statutory-vagueness | Whether petitioner's payment violated the honest-services fraud statute? Whether the district court's erroneous fiduciary duty jury instruction requi… |
| 25-515 | Michael Kail v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation | In Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (2010), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1346 covered only bribery and kickback schemes, expressly excludin… |
| 25-461 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence | Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged "official action" was using his "tremendous poli… |
| 25-390 | Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-02 | GVR | circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv… | |
| 25-306 | Thomas F. Spellissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conspiracy government-position honest-services-fraud official-act private-contractor | Whether a private contractor who holds no formal government position and lacks inherent governmental responsibility, can be convicted of conspiracy to… |
| 25A42 | Edward Mangano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | agency-relationship criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud official-act public-official | Whether a public official can be criminally liable for honest services fraud when lacking a formal agency or fiduciary relationship with the governmen… | |
| 24-7428 | Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Gavin Newsom, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | IFP | employer-mandate false-claims-act honest-services-fraud immigration-status medicaid-fraud rico-act | Whether federal funds for Medicaid were fraudulently used to subsidize health coverage for undocumented immigrants through California state legislatio… |
| 24-1066 | Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation | Whether a private individual may be convicted of honest-services fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346 where the alleged scheme to defraud did not contemplate … | |
| 24A712 | Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the federal fraud statute's 'right to control' theory of honest services fraud is a valid basis for criminal prosecution after the Supreme Cou… | |
| 23-7376 | Rajesh P. Budhabhatti v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1346 collateral-order-doctrine criminal-prosecution honest-services-fraud interlocutory-appeal judicial-resources judicial-review public-official self-dealing statutory-interpretation | Does an indictment alleging that the public servant received fraud proceeds from companies that he—jointly with private owned, and controlled allege h… |
| 23-6753 | Michael Avenatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 civil-litigation criminal-extortion federal-criminal-law honest-services-fraud legal-ethics settlement-negotiations statutory-vagueness void-for-vagueness | Is § 1346 void for vagueness? |
| 23-845 | Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation | Does quid pro quo bribery permit conviction for honest services fraud if a public official received a benefit in exchange for a potential future offic… |
| 23-777 | Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court | First Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger | Whether the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in refusing to enter a default judgment against the respondents when the Maine Attorney Ge… |
| 22-1127 | Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation | How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for honest services fraud and bribery, but then represe… |
| 21-1161 | Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-23 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U.S.… |
| 21-1158 | Joseph Percoco v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | civil-rights criminal-law due-process fiduciary-duty government-decisionmaking honest-services-fraud political-influence public-corruption | Does a private citizen who holds no elected office or government employment, but has informal political or other influence over governmental decisionm… |
| 21-729 | Shirene Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether after Skilling, the 'right of honest services' described in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 must be defined in relation to a specific fiduciary duty against … |
| 21-5081 | James Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | IFP | campaign-contributions evans-v-united-states explicit-quid-pro-quo extortion hobbs-act hobbs-act-extortion honest-services-fraud official-right overrule quid-pro-quo under-color-of-official-right | When-campaign-contributions-are-not-at-issue,-the-quid-pro-quo-need-not-be-explicit |
| 18-57 | Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing | Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides statutory standing for a District State Judge, a US District Court Justice, and Three Justices of the 10th Circuit C… |