Legal Opinion
United States v. Stanley F. Kreimer, Charles Lamar Lewis and Harry L. Walsh
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 2, 1980No. 78-5171PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, condemns any scheme to defraud in which the mails are used. United States v. Frick, 5 Cir. 1979, 588 F.2d 531, 536; United States v. Melvin, 5 Cir. 1977, 544 F.2d 767, 773, cert. denied 430 U.S. 910, 97 S.Ct. 1184, 51 L.Ed.2d 587. The statute does not forbid merely the use of the mails to perpetrate an act made criminal by state or federal law; it reaches any plan, consummated by the use of the mails, in which artifice or deceit is employed to obtain something of value with the intention of depriving the owner of his…
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