A federal appeals court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Skilling v. United States, has tossed out most of the convictions of two figures in a large public corruption case involving a city near Los Angeles.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed all of the counts based on the government’s "honest services" fraud theory against Albert Robles, former treasurer of South Gate, Calif., and a businessman, George Garrido. They’d been convicted on charges that they steered city contracts to companies for their own benefit.
