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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 ...
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." [2]
United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), is a white-collar criminal law case decided by the United States Supreme Court dealing with businessman Conrad Black 's fraud trial. Along with two companion cases— Skilling v. United States and Weyhrauch v. United States —it dealt with the honest services provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1346.
The 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal (also known as the Robocall scandal, Robogate, or RoboCon) is a political scandal stemming from events during the 2011 Canadian federal election. [1][2][3][4][5][6] It involved robocalls and real-person calls that originated in the Conservative Party of Canada 's campaign office in ...
A federal court jury in Los Angeles found Tom Girardi, once a legal titan and now a disgraced former attorney, guilty Tuesday of wire fraud for leading a years long scheme in which he embezzled ...
Varsity Blues scandal. Operation Varsity Blues[1][2] was the code name for the investigation into the 2019 criminal conspiracy scandal to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at several top American universities. The investigation and related charges were made public on March 12, 2019, by United States federal prosecutors.
In a plea agreement signed and filed Tuesday afternoon, Christopher Kamon, the former CFO, said he would forfeit $3.1 million and plead guilty to two wire fraud charges in exchange for the ...
Today’s most common scams use sophisticated technology and tools to target your trust, playing on your empathy or fear to get what they want. The best way to avoid falling for a scam is awareness.