A little less than two weeks after a U.S. District Judge sentenced Michael Scanlon to 20 months in federal prison and 300 hours of community service, the former lobbyist filed an appeal. Scanlon was a major player in the wide-ranging Jack Abramoff scandal, which defrauded several Native American tribes of tens of millions of dollars.Scanlon is appealing on the basis of the “honest services” law, frequently used in corruption cases, which was weakened by the Supreme Court after he entered his guilty plea.
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