A former House aide convicted for taking illegal gratuities from Jack Abramoff’s lobbying group wants the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the case.
Lawyers for Fraser Verrusio, formerly the policy director of the House Transportation Committee, on Nov. 7 filed a rehearing petition urging the full appeals court to examine the panel ruling. A three-judge panel in August upheld the conviction. Verrusio was convicted at trial in 2011 and sentenced to an afternoon locked up.
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