Sentences with phrase «mail fraud because»

Also shown, again with Swinton as one of the protagonists, was Strange Culture, Hershman Leeson's 2007 documentary on bio-artist Steve Kurtz, who was arrested as a «bioterrorist» and indicted for mail fraud because some specimens used for his projects were deemed pathogens.

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The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday that the Silverstone - based team was up for sale as current owner Vijay Mallya battled extradition back to his home country because of fraud allegations.

Former Senate Leader Joe Bruno, who was convicted on mail and wire fraud in 2009, won on appeal — also because of changes in federal law determined by another U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

He got a second chance because the «honest services» mail fraud law, under which he was convicted, was deemed overly vague and unconstitutional.

If any of those potential criminal offenses were federal crimes, such as mail or wire fraud, then interference with the investigation could conceivably be construed as obstruction of justice, or even aiding and abetting the commission of such a crime or serving as an accessory after the fact to the criminal offense, said several legal experts who declined to speak on the record because of the sensitivity of the investigation.

In addition, the mail and wire fraud statutes under which Blagojevich was charged have «enormous breadth» and may test the limits of prosecutorial power because it may ensnare perfectly legal conduct.

The mail fraud one is bizarre to me, from what I understand it is because they received the trustees deed that they fraudulently obtained through bid rigging by mail.