Sentences with phrase «avoid mail fraud charges»

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The 2011 bill passed after revelations former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno advised members of his conference to physically deliver the forms to avoid the risk of being hit with federal mail fraud charges.

As an example of such thinking, he cited the former leader of the State Senate who instructed his members to deliver their public disclosure forms by hand rather than mailing them so as to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those forms.

For years, according to testimony during former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno's 2009 trial, members of the state Senate's Republican conference were instructed to submit their annual financial disclosure forms by hand rather than through the mail in order to avoid potential federal mail fraud charges.

In criminal matters, Mr. Lowell has successfully avoided charges or defended clients against a wide array of charges, including conspiracy, election law violations, bank fraud, insurance fraud, bankruptcy fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, public corruption, honest services fraud, false claims act, obstruction of justice and false information charges and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).