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United States, No. 21-1158, 599 U.S. ___ (2023) 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 ...
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 Florida pain management doctor will pay $1.5 million to settle the U.S. government’s lawsuit filed against him — accusing him of accepting thousands of dollars to unnecessarily prescribe a ...
The federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201 (b), criminalizes the corrupt promise or transfer of any thing of value to influence an official act of a federal official, a fraud on the United States, or the commission or omission of any act in violation of the official's duty. [ 33] 18 U.S.C. § 201 (b) (1)– (2) provides:
A trail of fraudulent bank statements landed a Florida paralegal and her husband in jail after the couple stole nearly $1 million from a law firm, deputies said. ... a scheme to defraud Donna ...
Carla Nishikura, 39, of Bunnell, was arrested on charges of shoplifting, scheme to defraud and violation of probation, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
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 ...
The DME scheme was reminiscent of Medicare fraud in South Florida in the 1990s before it spread to other areas of medicine, such as physical therapy, diabetic injections and mental health services.