{"title":"The McDonnell Case: A Clarification of Corruption Law or a Confusing Application of Corruption Law","authors":"Chambers, L. Henry","doi":"10.31228/osf.io/3tuks","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"On September 4, 2014, Governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen G. McDonnell, were convicted in federal court of various crimes related to their relationship with Jonnie Williams, a Virginia businessman, and his company Star Scientific. 1 Earlier in the year, the McDonnells were charged in a fourteen-count indictment primarily consisting of public corruption charges. 2 Governor McDonnell faced one count of conspiracy to commit honestservices wire fraud, three counts of honest-services wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to obtain property under color of official right, six counts of obtaining property under color of official right, and two counts of providing false statements, one on a financial statement and one on a loan application. 3 Governor McDonnell was convicted on all counts except the two false statement charges. 4 Mrs. McDonnell faced the same charges as Governor McDon-","PeriodicalId":83423,"journal":{"name":"University of Richmond law review. University of Richmond","volume":"156 1","pages":"237-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"University of Richmond law review. University of Richmond","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31228/osf.io/3tuks","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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On September 4, 2014, Governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen G. McDonnell, were convicted in federal court of various crimes related to their relationship with Jonnie Williams, a Virginia businessman, and his company Star Scientific. 1 Earlier in the year, the McDonnells were charged in a fourteen-count indictment primarily consisting of public corruption charges. 2 Governor McDonnell faced one count of conspiracy to commit honestservices wire fraud, three counts of honest-services wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to obtain property under color of official right, six counts of obtaining property under color of official right, and two counts of providing false statements, one on a financial statement and one on a loan application. 3 Governor McDonnell was convicted on all counts except the two false statement charges. 4 Mrs. McDonnell faced the same charges as Governor McDon-
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