Plot. Kelly versus the united states. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, once again, the government is trying to use openended federal statutes to enforce federal government state and local 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 integrity of every official level of every government into a potential federal fraud investigation. It ends runs mcnally and skilling by subsuming on a Services Fraud within property fraud and by criminalizing ulterior motives even without bribes or kick backs. It would affect the sweeping expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction interview particularly fraught area. This is not the law. This court in cleveland held that Regulatory Authority is not property. So unofficial who introduces a sovereign decision through deceit has not
Chancellor Angela Merkel in moscow and the call for an immediate cease fire in tripoli to pave the way to the. Peace talks between the rival factions but it does not seem i mean the announcement by have to a spokesman short a little while ago does not seem to be concrete as were getting reports now from the front lines saying that have to his forces are now targeting get many areas in southern tripoli with mortar rockets and with heavy artillery we cannot independently verify that but nevertheless they have been several cease fire. Agreements or calls before but they have been breached by both warring factions this announcement by miss molly the spokesman of how to own it cannot be guaranteed a less military operations a stop on the ground another cease fire brokered by russia and turkey has come into effect in syrias province becomes less than 24 hours after at least 20 people were killed in the strikes in and around. The u. K. s ambassador to iran has been arrested and released after
Then later a look into how facial recognition technologies are being used identify people come into the u. S. But first the Supreme Court oral argument kelly versus the u. S. With her argument in case 181059. Mr. Roth. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court. 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 through this time is that the defense is committed property fraud by reallocating two two traffic lanes from one public road to another without disclosing their real political reason for doing so. This theory terms of the integrity of every official action at every level of government into a potential federal fraud investigation. It in runts mcnally and skilling by subsuming on the Services Fraud within property fraud and by criminalizing ulterior motives even without brides or kickbacks. It would, in fact, a sweeping expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction into a a particuly fr
This theory turns the integrity of every official action at every level of government into a potential federal fraud investigation. It end runs mcnally and skilling by subsuming Honest Services fraud within property fraud and by criminalizing ulterior motives, even without bribes or kickbacks. It would affect a sweeping expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction into a particularly fraught area. This is not the law. This court in cleveland held that Regulatory Authority is not property. So an official who induces a sovereign decision through deceit has not obtained property by fraud. Only when the official lies to divert state resources to private use has he stepped out of the regulatory realm and committed property fraud. This rule distinguishes property fraud from Honest Services fraud and from routine political conduct. Here because the defendants simply reallocated the traffic lanes from one public use to another, the Port Authority at most was deprived of regulatory control, not p
Contracted report for the commission on chinas expeditionary capabilities. Were really looking forward to that. At james, he specializes in emerging technologies, threat assessment, forecasting and data science. Much of his work analyzes chinas Armed Forces Modernization and u. S. Longrange strategic planning. Before joining james he was an extra Research Assistant for Yale University department of medical science where he did research on chinas naval modernization. Mr. Peltier has a master of arts in International Science from university of chicago. Good political real school. We will next year from kevin mccauley. Hes an independent analyst and was formally the scene Intelligence Officer for the soviet union, russia, china and taiwan during his 31 years in the u. S. Government. Hes senior china analyst for the armys National Ground Intelligence Center and he served on Advisory Board and working groups supporting the intelligence community, the National Intelligence council and the u.