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2 results foundAuthor: Doyle, Charles Title: Mail and Wire Fraud: A Brief Overview of Federal Criminal Law Summary: It is a federal crime to devise a scheme to defraud another of property, when either mail or wire communications are used in furtherance of the scheme, 18 U.S.C. 1341, 1343. Mail or wire fraud includes schemes to defraud another of honest services, when the scheme involves bribery or a kick back, 18 U.S.C. 1346; Skilling v. United States, 130 S.Ct. 2896 (2010). In order to convict, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant (1) used either mail or wire communications in the foreseeable furtherance, (2) of a scheme to defraud, (3) involving a material deception, (4) with the intent to deprive another of, (5) either property or honest services. Offenders face the prospect of imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a fine of not more than $250,000 (not more than $500,000 for organizations), an order to pay victim restitution, and the confiscation of any property realized from the offense. Misconduct that constitutes mail or wire fraud may also constitute a violation of one or more other federal crimes. Principal among these are predicate offense crimes, frauds based on jurisdictional factors other than use of mail or wire communications, and other honest services frauds in the form of bribery or kickbacks. The other federal bribery and kickback offenses include bribery of public officials, federal program bribery, extortion under color of official right, and Medicare/Medicaid kickbacks. Mail and wire fraud are money laundering and racketeering predicate offenses. Numbered among the fraud offenses based on other jurisdiction grounds are the false claims and false statement offenses, bank fraud, health care fraud, securities fraud, and foreign labor contracting fraud. Details: Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2011. 27p. Source: Internet Resource: R41930: Accessed August 9, 2011 at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41930.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41930.pdf Shelf Number: 122333 Keywords: BriberyExtortionFraudMail FraudMoney LaunderingWire Fraud |
Author: Cloud, Morgan Title: Law Deans in Jail Summary: A most unlikely collection of suspects - law schools, their deans, U.S. News & World Report and its employees - may have committed felonies by publishing false information as part of U.S. News' ranking of law schools. The possible federal felonies include mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, racketeering, and making false statements. Employees of law schools and U.S. News who committed these crimes can be punished as individuals, and under federal law the schools and U.S. News would likely be criminally liable for their agents' crimes. Some law schools and their deans submitted false information about the schools' expenditures and their students' undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. Others submitted information that may have been literally true but was misleading. Examples include misleading statistics about recent graduates' employment rates and students' undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. U.S. News itself may have committed mail and wire fraud. It has republished, and sold for profit, data submitted by law schools without verifying the data's accuracy, despite being aware that at least some schools were submitting false and misleading data. U.S. News refused to correct incorrect data and rankings errors and continued to sell that information even after individual schools confessed that they had submitted false information. In addition, U.S. News marketed its surveys and rankings as valid although they were riddled with fundamental methodological errors. Details: Social Science Research Network, 2012. 77p. Source: Working Paper: Internet Resource: Accessed March 9, 2012 at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2014157_code33010.pdf?abstractid=1990746&mirid=1 Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2014157_code33010.pdf?abstractid=1990746&mirid=1 Shelf Number: 124396 Keywords: Colleges and UniversitiesEducationFraudMail FraudRacketeeringWire Fraud |