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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 ...
Law. v. t. e. Malfeasance in office is any unlawful conduct that is often grounds for a just cause removal of an elected official by statute or recall election, or even additionally a crime. [1] [citation needed] Malfeasance in office contrasts with "misfeasance in office ", which is the commission of a lawful act, done in an official capacity ...
Criminal law. Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding. [A] Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention ...
a false representation. of a material past or existing fact. which the person making the representation knows is false. made for the purpose of causing. and which does cause. the victim to pass title. to his property [3] [broken footnote] False pretenses is a statutory offense in most jurisdictions; subject matter covered by statute varies ...
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June 4, 2024 at 9:07 AM. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - One California sheriff is saying he'd like to put at least one felon in the highest office in the land. In a tongue-and-cheek social media post on his ...
Police perjury, sometimes euphemistically called " testilying ", [1] [2] is the act of a police officer knowingly giving false testimony. It is typically used in a criminal trial to "make the case" against defendants believed by the police to be guilty when irregularities during the suspects' arrest or search threaten to result in their acquittal.