United States v. Armand P. D'AmAto

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• explaining that a party may \follow[] the instructions of an appropriate corporate agent who appears to be unconflicted and acting in good faith\
• declining to find lack of value and infer fraudulent intent under the mail fraud statute on the part of an attorney who accepts a retainer arrangement but is not called upon to perform services
• declining to find lack of value and infer fraudulent intent under the mail fraud statute on the part of an attorney who accepts a retainer arrangement but is not called upon to perform services
• relying on a business judgment rule to reverse the wire fraud conviction of lobbyist Armand D’Amato, who allegedly altered his bills for lobbying work to conceal his familial relationship with former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato
• pre-s 1346 case holding that misrepresentations amounting only to a deceit \must be coupled with a contemplated harm to the victim\
• “There is ... no dispute that D’Amato performed all the services for Unisys that were requested of him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).