18-usc-1343

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6465 Leslie Robert Burk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied IFP 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud 1. Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statemen…
23-6753 Michael Avenatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 civil-litigation criminal-extortion federal-criminal-law honest-services-fraud legal-ethics settlement-negotiations statutory-vagueness void-for-vagueness Petitioner, an attorney representing a plaintiff with potential contract and tort claims, was convicted of honest services fraud, in violation of 18 U…
23-832 Moshe Porat v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Relisted (5) 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i…
22-5226 Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted …
21-1161 Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-23 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud 1. Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U…
20-6340 Robert Farrace v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 great-recession kelly-v-united-states market-value mortgage-lenders mortgage-lending property-loss property-value short-sale wire-fraud Under this Court's recent decision in Kelly v. United States, 140 S.Ct. 1565, 1568 (2020), can a conviction for wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §…
18-6583 Dionysius Fiumano v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states DOES THE UNDEFINED ELEMENT "SCHEME TO DEFRAUD" IN 18 U.S.C. § 1343 SATISFY FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DE…