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mail fraud en · NOUN
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(US, countable, qualifier:criminal law, uncountable) A class of felonies, providing for a separate and additional federal penalty for any criminal offense whose perpetration involved the use of the postal system of the United States of America.
The mail fraud statute and its counterpart, the wire fraud statute, historically have been powerful instruments for prosecutors.
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:
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