CSPAN2 Kelly V. United States Oral Argument July 13, 2024
President ial bid. They used a wire fraud statute to prosecute kelly for the political revenge plot. Once again the government is trying to use the open ended federal fraud statutes to enforce honest government at the state and local levels. Its theory this time is that the defendants committed property fraud, by reallocating two traffic lanes from one public road to another, without disclosing their real political reason for doing so. This theory turns the integrate of every official action at every level of government into a potential federal fraud investigation. It ends runs mcnally and ski...