U.S. v. KEANE

No. 74CR359.

678 F.Supp. 708 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Thomas E. KEANE, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

December 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helene L. Greenwald, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for Government.

Jerome H. Torshen, James K. Genden, Torshen, Schoenfield & Spreyer, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

DECKER, District Judge.

On October 9, 1974, Alderman Thomas E. Keane ("Keane") was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Nearly thirteen years later, in an unrelated case, McNally v. United States, ___ U.S. ___, 107 S.Ct. 2875, 97 L.Ed.2d 292 the United States Supreme Court held that the mail fraud statute does not prohibit schemes to defraud citizens of their "intangible rights" to honest and impartial...

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