wire fraud
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
wire fraud (countable and uncountable, plural wire frauds)
- (US, criminal law) A felony of a particular class subject to a separate and additional federal penalty for any crime of fraud involving the use of technological communications methods such as wire, radio, or television.
- 1991, D. M. Maus, “License Procurement and the Federal Mail Fraud Statute”, in The University of Chicago Law Review, volume 58, number 3, page 1126:
- The mail fraud statute and its counterpart, the wire fraud statute, historically have been powerful instruments for prosecutors.
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class of felony
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