Sentences with phrase «mail fraud statutes»

He made no bones about the legal thinking behind his warning: «There were, quite frankly, concerns with federal mail fraud statutes.»

«[T] he words «to defraud» in the mail fraud statute have the «common understanding» of `'» wrongdoing one in his property rights by dishonest methods or schemes,» and «usually signify the deprivation of something of value by trick, chicane, or overreaching.

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• Although COINTELPRO came to light in 1971 — with its disregard of First Amendment freedoms and its massive violations of federal and state statutes against mail and wire fraud, incitement to violence, extortion, and sending obscene material through the mail — the Justice Department did not look into the program until 1974, and even then it uncovered no crimes.

So it wasn't a secret the judges weren't nuts about the statute, and it could not have been a secret to Bharara that if the cases were indeed strong against Skelos and Silver it might make more sense to stick to good old fashioned corruption charges like bribery and mail fraud only.

Bruno was indicted in January of 2009 on eight counts of wire and mail fraud under the honest services statute.

Henning said it's possible that other conduct mentioned in the report — such as transactions between the governor's office and companies like real estate developer Extell — could fall under mail and wire fraud statutes, which make it a crime for any public official to be «taking money and misrepresenting how it was used,» he said.

She has experience in handling investigations and prosecutions brought under a wide variety of federal criminal statutes, including banking fraud, health care fraud, bitcoin schemes, computer crimes, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud schemes, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, government contracting fraud, commercial bribery, Anti-Money-Laundering violations, and conspiracy offenses.

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.