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Learn the definitions, elements, and penalties of mail and wire fraud in the United States. Mail fraud involves using the postal service or interstate carriers to defraud, while wire fraud involves using telecommunication or electronic means.
Learn about the history, statutes, and cases of federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States. Find out how federal officials have used various laws to prosecute state and local officials for bribery, extortion, fraud, and other offenses.
Learn about the federal crime of honest services fraud, which covers schemes to deprive others of the intangible right of honest services. Find out the history, case law, and challenges of this statute in public and private contexts.
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.
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.
A statute of limitations is a law that sets the maximum time for legal proceedings after an event. Learn about its purpose, applications, exceptions, and variations in different jurisdictions and legal systems.
The Stored Communications Act (SCA) is a law that regulates the disclosure of online communications and records by third-party service providers. Section 2702 of the SCA defines electronic communication services and remote computing services and sets different requirements for government access to content and non-content information.
Cleveland v. United States, 531 U.S. 12 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that concerned the definition of "property" under the federal mail fraud statute. In a unanimous decision, the Court held that "property" for the purposes of federal law did not include state video poker licences because such transactions were not a vested right or expectation.