On March 1 Thomas Hagemann filed into a crowded U.S. Supreme Court chamber to hear oral arguments in an appeal of the 2006 conviction of former Enron Corporation CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Hagemann, 53, had come up at his own expense, off the clock, driving up from the American Bar Association’s white-collar crime conference in Miami, after flights were canceled because of a blizzard.
Skilling’s was the final set of arguments in a trio of cases challenging the constitutionality of the “honest services” statute, which makes it a federal crime to deprive a person or entity of “the intangible right to honest services.” And Hagemann, tall and square-jawed with graying blond hair, had attended all three; an opinion is expected by June.
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