"The white collar crimes on the Supreme Court’s 2015 docket consist of three Hobbs Act cases,
one on insider trading (Salman v. United States), and the final on computer fraud (Musacchio v.
United States). The Hobbs Act outlaws robbery and extortion when committed in a manner which
“in any way or degree” obstructs interstate commerce. One of the Hobbs Act cases before the
Court (Taylor v. United States) involves the robbery of suspected drug dealers. The second
(Ocasio v. United States) consists of a kickback conspiracy between traffic cops and body shop
owners. The third (McDonnell v. United States) involves a local drug manufacturer who showered
a state governor and his wife with gifts in an apparent attempt to use the governor’s office as a
bully pulpit for one of his products..."
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