Cornell Law
18 U.S. Code § 1341 - Frauds and 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, security, or other article, or anything
represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or
spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice
or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized
depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or
delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited
any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or
commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such
matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such
carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it
is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any
such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or
involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred,
disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major
disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)),
or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more
than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 763; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 34, 63 Stat. 94; Pub. L. 91–375, § (6)(j)(11), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, § 961(i), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 500; Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2504(h), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4861; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXV, § 250006, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2087, 2147; Pub. L. 107–204, title IX, § 903(a), July 30, 2002, 116 Stat. 805; Pub. L. 110–179, § 4, Jan. 7, 2008, 121 Stat. 2557.)
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