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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] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
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. [68] § 1346 was known as the "McNally fix." [2] In Skilling v. United States (2010), the Court construed § 1346 to apply only to bribes and kickbacks. [69]
Mail fraud was first defined in the United States in 1872. 18 U.S.C. § 1341 provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use ...
Ivan Dario Diez, 58, charged with grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, fabricating evidence and perjury, participated in a plot to divert homeowners’ monthly maintenance fees at the 3,800 ...
Navarro, 49, who served on the School Board for seven years until resigning at the end of 2022, is facing two counts of organized scheme to defraud and two counts of grand theft, charges that ...
Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border in a deal that allowed him to avoid prison.
Confidence trick – an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. They involve "voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", and benefit the fraudster ("con man") at the expense of the victim. [8] Contract; Conveyance, see § Transfer
Lindberg, 54, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the U.S. and one count of money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud insurance regulators and ...