Another View of Honest Services Prosecutions

A Huffington Post article has a negative view of the state of the "honest services" theory of prosecution. Here's the lead:

Jack Abramoff--the imprisoned Washington ex-lobbyist--must be kicking himself. On Thursday, October 15, a judge in Washington, D.C. reluctantly declared a mistrial for defendant Kevin Ring, one of Abramoff's most trusted lieutenants. The jury had found itself hopelessly deadlocked on all eight counts, most of them "private honest-services fraud." And Ring accomplished this amazing derring-do without calling a single witness in his own defense. It may be a sign that the reign of honest-services-fraud terror by federal prosecutors is finally coming to an end.