The Supreme Court seemed receptive on Nov. 28 to arguments that federal prosecutors had gone too far in public corruption cases involving Joe Percoco, formerly a longtime aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and a man in a related Cuomo-era fraud case.
The case is important because the high court could decide to curb prosecutorial powers in cases brought under the federal honest-services fraud statute, which some lawyers and civil libertarians say is vague and overbroad.
