Hogan Marren Attorneys Challenge Honest Services Fraud Conviction

Hogan Marren attorneys Patrick E. Deady, Edward M. Hogan, Kelly McCloskey Cherf and Michael Tecson are challenging the mail fraud conviction of former City of Chicago employee Timothy McCarthy in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24, 2010 decision in Skilling v. U.S. restricting the scope of the honest services fraud statute used to convict McCarthy.  McCarthy and his codefendants, Robert Sorich and Patrick Slattery, filed post-conviction petitions in February, 2010 seeking to vacate their convictions, anticipating the Court’s decision in Skilling.  The petitions are now pending before United States District Court Judge David H. Coar.  Hogan Marren attorneys also represented McCarthy in the 2006 City Hiring fraud trial and on direct appeal to the Supreme Court