Cleveland v. U.S., No. 99-804 (U.S. Supreme Court) (531 U.S. 12; 121 S.Ct. 365) (November 7, 2000) (Justice Ginsburg)
Warning against “a sweeping expansion” of Federal criminal jurisdiction, the Supreme Court vacated the mail fraud convictions of a Louisiana lawyer (which had also served as the predicates for his money laundering and racketeering charges) on the grounds that the Federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, does not reach false ...
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