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May submitted fake invoices in some cases and threw away mail to hide the thefts. May used the names and/or Social Security numbers of 45 clients and initiated more than 540 wire transfers in ...
McNally v. United States, 483 U.S. 350 (1987), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that the federal statute criminalizing mail fraud applied only to the schemes and artifices defrauding victims of money or property, as opposed to those defrauding citizens of their rights to good government.
Mail and wire fraud. Mail fraud and wire fraud are terms used in the United States to describe the use of a physical (e.g., the U.S. Postal Service) or electronic (e.g., a phone, a telegram, a fax, or the Internet) mail system to defraud another, and are U.S. federal crimes. Jurisdiction is claimed by the federal government if the illegal ...
These individuals face up to 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000 for wire and mail fraud convictions and up to 10 years and a fine of up to $5 million for counts of trafficking in counterfeit ...
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, more than 50 Houston-area residents were indicted in a wire fraud scheme to use false documents to get bail bonds for those charged with criminal offenses ...
Media executive and former owner of KFMB studios. Arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. [167] Husband, a former San Diego prosecutor, was charged with wire fraud as well, [168] though charges were no longer in place by August 2021. [169]
Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court decision on criminal law and procedure.By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988, [1] which states "For the purposes of this chapter, the term scheme or artifice to defraud includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." [2]