McDonnell v. United States

The Court held that a defendant who induces a victim to enter into a transaction under materially false pretenses may be convicted of federal fraud even if the defendant did not seek to cause the victim economic loss.

The Court held that prosecution for making a false statement to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under 18 U.S.C. § 1014 requires the statement to be false, rather than simply misleading.

The Court rejected the "right-to-control" theory as a valid basis for convictions under the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343.

In a case about the federal honest services fraud statute, the Court held that a private citizen with significant influence over government decision-making cannot be convicted of honest services fraud for actions taken while not holding public office.· AI-written

In a case over politically motivated George Washington Bridge lane closures, the Court unanimously overturned the fraud and conspiracy convictions because the scheme did not aim to obtain money or property, and remanded to the lower courts.· AI-written

The court held that the words "investigation" and "proceedings" in the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 are limited to government investigations and criminal proceedings and do not include private investigations and civil or bankruptcy proceedings.

The court held that a scheme to defraud customers also deprives the bank of money in which the bank held a "property right"; therefore, criminal defendants may be convicted under the federal bank-fraud statute for schemes to defraud bank customers.

The Court held that gifts of confidential information without any compensation to relatives for the purposes of insider trading are a violation of securities laws.

The Court construed a Sarbanes-Oxley provision criminalizing destruction of records, documents, or tangible objects to obstruct a federal investigation, and held that "tangible object" means one used to record or preserve information, not including fish.· AI-written

The Court held that a conviction of the crime of knowingly executing a scheme to obtain property owned by, or under the custody of, a bank "by means of false or fraudulent pretenses," does not require the government to prove that a defendant intended to defraud a financial institution.

The Court found the statute vague, meaning it was written in a manner that almost anyone could be convicted of the statute by engaging in most legal activities.

The Court found the statute vague, meaning it was written in a manner that almost anyone could be convicted of the statute by engaging in most legal activities.

The Court held that a plot to defraud a foreign government of tax revenue violates the federal wire fraud statute.

The case concerned how far RICO reached certain corporation-individual organizations, and the Court unanimously decided to apply the Act to respondent Don King.· AI-written

The Court held unanimously that, under the federal mail fraud statute, "property" did not include state video poker licences, because such transactions were not a vested right or expectation.· AI-written

By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge.