Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346, the federal mail and wire fraud statute. The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346, the federal mail and wire fraud statute. The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
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