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wire fraud en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (US, countable, qualifier:criminal law, uncountable) 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.
    • 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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Translations (3)

cmn 電匯欺詐 /电汇欺诈 (class of felony) · es fraude electrónico (class of felony) · cmn 電匯詐騙 /电汇诈骗 (class of felony)