scheme-to-defraud

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-631 Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error Petitioners were charged with fraud offenses, all of which had as an element "intent to defraud" and most of which also had as an element "scheme to d…
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 …
22-5078 Karen E. Ramm v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud business-loan cover-up cover-up-efforts criminal-prosecution disbursal-of-funds funds-disbursal scheme-to-defraud statute-of-limitations Whether, in a bank fraud prosecution, the execution of a scheme to defraud is complete upon disbursal of funds, thereby starting the clock for statute…
21-7720 Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud 1. Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a "Scheme to Defraud" in Any Prose…
20-6784 Abdisalan Abulahab Hussein v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fraud insurance insurance-claims mail-fraud medical-necessity patient-referral scheme-to-defraud standing wire-fraud (1) Under the mail and wire fraud statutes, can a defendant be convicted where the purported victim insurance companies were not deprived of money or …
18-8672 Jack Holden v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud 1. When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do cour…