Percoco v. United States

Summary

The Supreme Court held that the jury instructions based on the Margiotta test for honest‑services fraud were unconstitutionally vague and therefore erroneous, leading to a reversal and remand of the Second Circuit’s judgment. The Court affirmed that a private individual can owe a fiduciary duty to the public when acting as an actual agent of the government, but rejected the broad application of the Margiotta standard.