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unusual facts about wire fraud



Hassan Nemazee

In July 2010 he was convicted of multiple counts of bank fraud and wire fraud and was sentenced to 12½ years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Sidney H. Stein in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

The Victorian Internet

Both cultures made or make use of complex text coding and abbreviated language slang, both required network security experts, and both attracted criminals who used the networks to commit fraud, hack private communications, and send unwanted messages.


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Craig Berkman

In June 2013, Berkman pled guilty to securities and wire fraud at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

Ed Muransky

The project required approval of the state gambling board and resulted in a highly publicized bribery scandal that ended with the conviction of former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards on 17 counts, including racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

Hewlett-Packard spying scandal

Hunsaker and the two investigators pled no contest to the wire fraud count; those charges were dismissed pending their completion of 96 hours of community service.

Peter Hill Beer

In 1986, Beer sentenced former Alexandria municipal finance and utilities commissioner Arnold Jack Rosenthal (1923-2010) to twenty-two months in prison for wire fraud.

William J. McCorkle

William and Chantal McCorkle were charged in a multi-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, laundering money, using fraudulently obtained credit cards, and using a false Social Security number.