Deprivation of Honest Services as a Basis for Federal Mail and Wire Fraud Convictions [electronic resource]
Reviews background on mail and wire fraud, and explains the honest services statute, which amended the mail and wire fraud statutes to include within definition of "scheme or artifice to defraud" those frauds which "deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Add...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Reviews background on mail and wire fraud, and explains the honest services statute, which amended the mail and wire fraud statutes to include within definition of "scheme or artifice to defraud" those frauds which "deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Addresses constitutional considerations, judicial limitations on scope of the honest services statute. Outlines three honest services statute cases in which Supreme Court has granted certiorari. |
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| Item Description: | Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Jan. 2013). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. |
| Physical Description: | 28 p., digital, PDF file. |