Deprivation of Honest Services as a Basis for Federal Mail and Wire Fraud Convictions.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law.

Finance--Law and legislation.

Finance.

Fraud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (21 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009.

System Details:

text file

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 two honest services statute cases in which Supreme Court has granted certiorari.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Deprivation of Honest Services as a Basis for Federal Mail and Wire Fraud Convictions

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