United States Fourth Circuit

Where the defendant's deception deprived his fraud victim of the chance to consider a variety of brokers and to search for the best possible price, it violates the honest services doctrine embodied in 18 USC 1346, so the fraud scheme exposed the victim to a reasonably foreseeable economic risk.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/08/2001
• Decided 09/11/2001
• Published 09/12/2001

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Eugene Breckenridge, II, Johnson, Hester, Walter & Breckenridge, L.L.P., Ottumwa, IA, for Appellant. Thomas Ernest Booth, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  J. Rene Josey, United States Attorney, Alfred W. Bethea, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, District of South Carolina, for Appellee.