He got around a statute of limitations by advancing the theory that he had just discovered that Lutcher Stark fraudulently undervalued Nita's 1939 estate to duck death taxes, depriving the sons of their full inheritance.
Supreme Court, in an unrelated case, dealt with the honest services fraud statute in a way that destroyed the legal theory on which Bruno had been convicted.
The suit on Myfortic is a significant expansion of the Anti-Kickback Statute that is inconsistent with law and policy in this area and the theory in this case threatens to undermine pharmaceutical company discounting practices that benefit both consumers and payers, including the government.