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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Supreme Court and 1st Circuit Significantly Curtail Scope of Federal Property Fraud Statutes

Key Points- In two landmark decisions, the Supreme Court and the 1st Circuit significantly pared back the scope of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes. In Ciminelli v. United States, a political corruption case, the...more

McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts...

No Harm, No Fraud: The Supreme Court Narrows the Application of the Wire Fraud Statute and Unanimously Overrules the “Right to...

Most experienced contractors have a healthy fear of the various types of fraud claims: False Claims Act, federal and state wire and mail fraud, common law fraud, etc. They know that enforcement authorities are always looking...more

Blank Rome LLP

Tradition! Tradition! Tradition!: Mail and Wire Fraud Prosecution Theories Must Be Grounded in Traditional Concepts of Property

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What does the musical Fiddler on the Roof have to teach us about prosecuting theories of mail and wire fraud? You have to ground everything in Tradition! Tradition! Tradition! This week, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”)...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Return to Sender: Aéropostale Employee’s Fraud Convictions Affirmed, But Restitution Order Sent Back for Recalculation

Aéropostale is known by many as a staple of adolescent wardrobes and shopping-mall standard. But as a patsy for kickback schemes? In United States v. Finazzo, 14-3213-cr, 14-3330-cr (Droney, J., joined by Judges Sack and...more

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