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How Important Is the Skelling Case for White Colored Defendants?
The skilling case involved the prosecution in the wake of enron. The court basically had to decide whether the government's theory of honest services fraud was too broad. And so what the court did was it shrunk its understanding of the criminal prohibition on fraud, thereby allowing conduct that you and i would think of as immoral to none the less not be illegal.