United States Third Circuit

Convictions of a former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a co-defendant for engaging in a fraudulent scheme to purchase city-owned parcels of real property are affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded where: 1) defendants' honest services fraud convictions are reversed as, in light of Skilling, a failure to limit honest services fraud to "bribes and kickbacks" now constitutes legal error, and this plain error affected defendants' substantial rights; 2) defendants' convictions based on the remaining counts are affirmed because there is sufficient evidence from which a jury could have found defendants guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; 3) district court's denial of defendant's post-trial motions are affirmed; and 4) district court did not err in any of the challenged determinations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/13/2010
• Decided 09/16/2010
• Published 09/16/2010

Judges

• RESTANI

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Krovatin Klingeman, Norman Gross