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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 ...
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."
California Civil Code § 3369, enacted in 1872, was California's early unfair competition statute. It "addressed only the availability of civil remedies for business violations in cases of penalty, forfeiture, and criminal violation." [3] A 1933 amendment expanded the law to prohibit "any person [from] performing an act of unfair competition."
A Sacramento couple was charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft after a federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against them on Thursday, according to officials.
Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
Banks reported roughly 680,000 reports of check fraud to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, ... In one case in Southern California last year, nearly sixty people were arrested on charges of ...
“The maximum penalty under federal law for mail/wire fraud and witness tampering is 20 years of imprisonment,” the AG’s Office added. “The maximum penalty for obstruction of justice is 10 ...
Among them are California, [4] Delaware, [5] Massachusetts, [6] New Jersey, [7] New York, Texas, [8] and Washington. [9] However, the federal mail and wire fraud statutes [ 10 ] can be used to prosecute commercial bribery as a "scheme or artifice to defraud" if the mail or interstate wire facilities are used.