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Theft from Interstate Shipment is a legal classification of crime used for Section 659 of Title 18 of the United States Code.It prohibits the theft or fraudulent acquisition of goods that are part of an interstate or international shipment, whether from the carrier or a holding area, and also the wilful buying, selling or possession of goods obtained in this way.
Section 2311 of Title 18 provides the definitions for certain words and phrases used in the Act. [2] For example, "money" is defined to include not just the legal tender of the U.S. or any foreign country, but also any counterfeit; "security" receives an expansive definition that also includes, among other things, not just "any instrument commonly known as a 'security,'" but also any forged ...
The offence of obtaining a money transfer by deception, contrary to section 15A of the Theft Act 1968, was specifically enacted to remove the problem caused by R v Preddy and Slade, R v Dhillon. [10] This case held that there no section 15 offence was committed when the defendant caused transfers between the victim's and his own bank account by ...
Sep. 5—Criminal charges keep piling up against a Susquehanna County attorney accused of taking money from former clients for legal services he failed to perform. County detectives filed theft ...
The "theft" of one's personal information or identity, like finding another's social security number and then using it as identification, is a type of fraud. Fraud can be committed through and across many media including mail , wire , phone , and the Internet ( computer crime and Internet fraud ).
The modern concept is a deception and it is used as the common basis of the actus reus (the Latin for "guilty act") in the deception offences under the Theft Act 1968 and in the Theft Act 1978. The Fraud Act 2006 repealed these latter two acts and replaced deception offences with other offences.
Smith, J. C. Obtaining Cheques by Deception or Theft (1997) CLR 396 Smith, J. C. : Stealing Tickets (1998) CLR 723 ^ This offence is referred to as "obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception" by the marginal notes to section 16 of the 1968 and 1969 Acts and by Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice , 1999, para. 21-216 at p. 1809 ...
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.