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In two unanimous decisions handed down this month, the U.S. Supreme Court did exactly what was unfortunately expected and tossed out convictions won by famed corruption-buster former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. The justices didn’t like what both Bharara and the trial court had agreed was criminal behavior by Andrew Cuomo’s hatchet man Joe Percoco as well as a bunch of guys nailed in the ill-fated Buffalo Billion scandal.
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed two high-profile corruption convictions in New York, prompting a debate over whether the court has drastically narrowed federal-corruption prosecutions or whether the problem is vaguely written laws.