Federal Mail Fraud Statute Law and Legal Definition
The Federal Mail Fraud Statute of 1872 is a federal law enacted to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-office department. The act makes it a federal offense to use the mails in connection with any scheme or artifice to defraud.
The mail fraud law serves as a broad and adaptable mechanism to deal with ever-changing varieties of fraud. Prosecutors have eagerly seized on this law to go after consumer frauds, investment scams, the filing of false insurance claims, election fraud, bribery, and other forms of public corruption.
Mail and Fraud charges are the most commonly tools federal prosecutors use in federal criminal white collar cases. The mail fraud statute involves a scheme to defraud, and a use of the mails for the purpose of executing the scheme.
Legal Definition list
- Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program[FLTCIP]
- Federal loan
- Federal Legislative Jurisdiction
- Federal Lease
- Federal Law Social Security
- Federal Mail Fraud Statute
- Federal Mandate
- Federal Maritime Commission
- Federal Matching Funds
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- Federal Migratory Bird Taxidermy Permit
Related Legal Terms
- 419 Fraud
- Accompanying the Federal Government Outside the United States
- Accounting Fraud
- Active Voters [Federal Elections]
- Actual Fraud
- Actuarial Documents [Federal Crop Insurance Corporation]
- Actuarially Appropriate [Federal Crop Insurance Corporation]
- Actus Fictus In Fraudem Legis
- Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
- Administrative Governor [Federal Reserve System]
