U.S. v. LOPEZ-LUKIS

No. 95-3130.

102 F.3d 1164 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vicki LOPEZ-LUKIS a.k.a. Vicki Lopez-Wolfe and Sylvester Lukis, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tamra Phipps, Linda Julin McNamara, Asst. U.S. Attys., Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas C. Green, Bradford A. Berenson, Julia Elizabeth Sullivan, Stephen F. Smith, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge, and RONEY and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Sections 1341 and 1346 of Title 18 of the United States Code, the federal mail fraud statutes, make it unlawful to deprive the electorate of a governmental office holder's "honest services."1 This interlocutory appeal presents the question of whether these statutes make criminal a scheme in which a county commissioner, in addition to selling her own votes to a lobbyist, takes steps to ensure that a majority of commissioners...

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