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United States Postal Inspection Service Mail Fraud & Misrepresentation Title 18, United States Code Section 1341. Frauds & swindles Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, secu ...

December 1994 Mail Fraud: Limiting The Limitless By Ellen S. Podgor Ellen S. Podgor is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of White Collar Crime In a Nutshell (West, 1993), and is also Co-Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee and Vice-Chair of the NACDL 8300 Task Force. One thinks of the mail fraud statute as omnipotent and omnipresent, with prosecutors often selecting this charge as a convenient tool for p ...