Prosecutors weren’t required to prove that a businessman intended to cause tangible harm to the patients of the doctors he bribed in order to obtain the man’s mail fraud conviction, a federal appeals court held.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected the argument that actual or intended harm is an element of a scheme to deprive someone of the right to honest services.
Instead, the court wrote, “no showing of tangible harm to a victim is necessary” to convict a defendant of …