wire-fraud
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-911 | Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud | Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25-841 | Henry Troy Wade v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Response Waived | brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud | 1. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indic… |
| 25-6492 | Arthur Fayne v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud | 1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis). Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 conf… |
| 25-6167 | Amir Golestan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | denaturalization guilty-plea immigration-consequences rule-11 substantial-rights wire-fraud | Whether the failure to give the Rule 11(b)(1)(O) warning affects the substantial rights of a naturalized United States citizen who could be denaturali… |
| 25A509 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud | Whether, following Honeycutt, a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely because … | |
| 25-5576 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud | I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.… |
| 24A1182 | Ayana Saunders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-972 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of the federal … | |
| 24-6591 | Kimberly Sponaugle v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure expert-disclosure expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence lay-opinion wire-fraud | Whether the trial court erred as a matter of law in ruling that F.R.E. 701 permitted the prosecution to present in its case-in-chief lay opinion testi… |
| 24-6560 | Tamaz Pasternak, aka Tomas Pasternak v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law federal-statute fraud-scheme property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24A766 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6465 | Leslie Robert Burk v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud | 1. Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statemen… |
| 24A737 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute intent-to-defraud jury-instruction mail-fraud property-rights wire-fraud | Whether a misrepresentation that is designed to induce a transaction in property, but that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics o… | |
| 24A712 | Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6264 | Suresh Munshani v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud | 1. The following question is presented here. Does the merger of Petitioner's money laundering conspiracy conviction with Petitioner's wire fraud consp… |
| 24-6170 | Robert E. Carter v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud | The Federal Appeals Courts are split on whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates the federal fraud statutes and whether depriva… |
| 24-5785 | Bernard Ross Hansen and Diane Renee Erdmann v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-fraud federal-statute mail-fraud property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-273 | SBFO Operator No. 3, LLC, et al. v. Onex Corporation, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | boilerplate-release civil-procedure dispositive-motion motion-to-amend rico-liability wire-fraud | This petition presents three questions on which the circuits disagree: 1. Does a boilerplate release, induced as an integral part of a wire fraud sch… | |
| 24-5172 | Hassan Abbas v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud | Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the constitutional protections as to venue when it comes to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy pr… |
| 23-1321 | Jeffrey Batio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud | Proving federal mail or wire fraud requires proving a defendant's specific intent to defraud. A defendant's good faith that his representations are tr… | |
| 23A1055 | Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Presumed Complete | aggravated-identity-theft double-jeopardy enumerated-offense fifth-amendment plea-agreement wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1205 | Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud | Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened… |
| 23-7404 | William Maxwell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud | I. The Supreme Court in Ciminelli, Bruen, Rahimi, Cleveland, Kelly, and Fischer, issued (or will issue) post conviction/post Maxwell's Third Circuit P… |
| 23-985 | Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment wire-fraud | 1 In this pro se case Petitioner respectfully requests the US Supreme Court to intervene in this case, which is the ninth petition to this Court. I am… |
| 23-909 | Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | civil-rights commercial-exchange contract contract-law due-process mail-fraud property property-rights sovereign-interest wire-fraud | Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not th… |
| 23-832 | Moshe Porat v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Relisted (5) | 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i… |
| 23-6478 | Michael Alan Welker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-indictment deception due-process eighth-circuit fraud mail-fraud marital-property marriage property wire-fraud | Whether a husband's actions in deceiving his wife regarding marital property constitutes federal mail and wire fraud? |
| 23A538 | Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split economic-harm mail-fraud property-fraud spending-decision wire-fraud | Whether deceit aimed at influencing a victim's spending decision, without contemplating economic injury, is property fraud under the mail and wire fra… | |
| 23A418 | Moshe Porat v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Presumed Complete | deceit fraud-statutes monetary-transaction property-rights rankings wire-fraud | Whether deceit to induce a transaction, without more, is sufficient to prove wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1384)—regardless of whether fair value is exchang… | |
| 23-5759 | Meredith McConnell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-indictment false-statements federal-statute materiality neder-v-united-states ninth-circuit omissions wire-fraud | Does an indictment charging the offense of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, require pleading and proof of a specific false statement or o… |
| 23-301 | James E. Workman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud | 1. The criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud each required proof that Workman engaged in fraudulent act… |
| 22-1055 | Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud | The wire-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prohibits fraudulent schemes that use wire, radio, or television communications in interstate or foreign com… | |
| 22-7142 | William Matthew Plump v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud | The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am… |
| 22-945 | Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud | 1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were… |
| 22-853 | Donald V. Watkins, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | accredited-investors conspiracy corporate-governance intent-to-defraud ongoing-business risk-disclosure statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred, as a matter of law, in sustaining a conviction for wire fraud conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. §1349 (in Count One of… |
| 22-852 | Donald V. Watkins, Sr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-intent disclosure economic-benefits financial-disclosure insider insider-lending nominee-loan regulation-o regulatory-compliance wire-fraud | 1. Whether a bank "insider " who acknowledged receiving tangible economic benefits from a $151,739.50 bank loan made to his business associate, com… |
| 22-6343 | Rossen Iossifov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud | The Petitioner, Rossen Iossifov ("Iossifov"), was indicted on July 5, 2018, and charged with one count of conspiring to engage in racketeering activit… |
| 22-419 | Cedric Chanu v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud | (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any "implied misrepresentation" that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, ev… | |
| 22-402 | James Vorley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-31 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "… | |
| 22-5779 | James Michael Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by finding that the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Johnson of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money l… |
| 22-5460 | Bradley Lane Croft v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether an accused commits the crime of aggravated identity theft by merely uttering, mentioning, or reciting someone else's name when committing frau… |
| 22-5226 | Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted … |
| 21-8130 | Monica Ruiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud | IS THE INTERSTATE NEXUS REQUIRED IN § 1343 A SUBSTANTIVE ELEMENT OF THE CRIME OF WIRE FRAUD ? WAS THE FACTUAL BASIS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT MS. RUIZ'S … |
| 21-7979 | Robert Allen Stanford, aka Sir Allen Stanford, aka Allen Stanford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-transmission jurisdictional-element miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers wire-fraud | (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, as properly interpreted, can be used to charge, prosecute and punish, a wire communication… |
| 21-7720 | Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a "Scheme to Defraud" in Any Prose… |
| 21-1241 | Michael L. Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-15 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split due-process economic-decision fraud mail-fraud property-fraud property-rights right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on one's e… |
| 21-1170 | Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud—which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person'… |
| 21-1169 | Alain Kaloyeros v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | GVR | Relisted (3) | circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Is the deprivation of accurate information regarding a transaction, without more, "property" under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as the S… |
| 21-1161 | Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-23 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U… |
| 21-1023 | Kay Gow v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1348 contract contract-breach federal-statute grant-application grant-funding investment-agreement investor-sophistication misrepresentation subscription-agreement wire-fraud | 1. Can the provisions of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, be interpreted to criminalize a breach of a contract by grant recipient, wh… |
| 21-876 | John G. Williams, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability due-process general-verdict jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-sufficiency wire-fraud yates-rule | Given Stromberg v. California, Yates v. United States, and Griffin v. United States, whether this Court has clearly established that a jury's verdict … |
| 21-169 | James Gatto, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | 18-usc-1843 criminal-law federal-statute incidental-harms jury-instructions property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-text united-states-v-kelly wire-fraud | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1343—the federal wire fraud statute—requires the Government to prove, consistent with section 1343's statutory text, that the "… |
| 21-5128 | Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud | Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 20-6784 | Abdisalan Abulahab Hussein v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fraud insurance insurance-claims mail-fraud medical-necessity patient-referral scheme-to-defraud standing wire-fraud | (1) Under the mail and wire fraud statutes, can a defendant be convicted where the purported victim insurance companies were not deprived of money or … |
| 20-6340 | Robert Farrace v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 great-recession kelly-v-united-states market-value mortgage-lenders mortgage-lending property-loss property-value short-sale wire-fraud | Under this Court's recent decision in Kelly v. United States, 140 S.Ct. 1565, 1568 (2020), can a conviction for wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-610 | Linda L. Howland v. Michael Kelly, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | bank-fraud bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud due-process false-claims financial-crisis fraud mortgage-fraud racketeer-influenced-organizations wire-fraud | 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals prematurely dismiss the case without viewing the facts proving violations to Federal Statutes that shows a … | |
| 20-33 | Grace International Assembly of God v. Gennaro Festa, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pattern-continuity predicate-acts racketeering-activity RICO rico-statute standing victim-definition wire-fraud | Whether only the entity sustaining the greatest direct injury may be considered a victim for the purposes of determining if there is closed- or open-e… | |
| 19-1412 | Mark Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Amici (2) | common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud | Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a "false or fraudulent…promise[… |
| 19-8526 | Quintez Talley v. Timothy Mazzocca, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion leave-to-amend mail-fraud pro-se-plaintiff racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act screening-phase standing supplemental-jurisdiction wire-fraud | 1. Does the Disability to Shoulder Concrete Financial Loss Demonstrate a Lack of Standing When Bringing 2 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizatio… |
| 19-1179 | Yuri J. Stoyanov v. James E. McPherson, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response Waived | case-consolidation civil-rights consolidation due-process federal-crimes fraud judicial-fraud mail-fraud obstruction-of-justice postal-service-records pro-se-petition wire-fraud | Question not identified. |
| 19-1127 | Wheeler K. Neff v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations to resolve a civil lawsuit constitute a … |
| 19-1125 | Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of rac… |
| 19-7916 | Mark Gelazela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3282 continuing-offense criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-prosecution lulling statute-of-limitations time-barred wire-fraud | Whether after-the-fact "lulling" allegations extend the statute of limitations for wire fraud beyond the five-year period authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 32… |
| 19-1087 | Charles M. Hallinan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as… |
| 19-1032 | Alphonso I. Waters, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process government-burden-of-proof government-evidence intent-to-harm jury-charge target-deception wire-fraud | 1. Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated by his wire fraud convictions for conduct that did not fall within the ambit of the wire frau… |
| 19-7368 | Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud | Materiality is one of the essential elements of mail and wire fraud. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999). A false statement is "material" if… |
| 19-901 | Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud | What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… | |
| 19-782 | Vahan Kelerchian v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Does the "right to control" constitute "property" for purposes of wire and mail fraud in light of this Court's holding in McNally, Carpenter, Cleve… | |
| 19-6698 | Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud | 1. Whether jurists of reasonable mind would debate that counsel was ineffetive in violation of Sixth amendment for failure to investigate and litigat… |
| 19-495 | Martin Shkreli v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | In prosecutions for mail, wire and bank fraud, which require a finding of a loss or an intended loss by the victim, a "no ultimate harm" instruction h… |
| 19-6104 | Freya D. Pearson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1) Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a "Materiality" determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court o… |
| 19-5805 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | 1. Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, th… |
| 19-273 | Michael Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud | In mail and wire fraud cases, the government does not have to prove a victim actually lost money or property, but it does have to prove a scheme desig… | |
| 19-5086 | Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud | Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Claim … |
| 18-1552 | Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud | Whether unadjudicated traffic tickets constitute 'property' under the mail- and wire-fraud statutes |
| 18A1302 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether a circuit split exists regarding the 'right to control' theory of wire fraud and loss calculation in cases involving government funding and un… | |
| 18-9001 | Steven P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud | Can the federal government convict a politician for complying with a state's ambiguous campaign finance law? |
| 18-1336 | Walter P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether the petitioner was denied due process by lack of notice of the federal prosecutors' interpretation of a state campaign finance statute and an … |
| 18-8672 | Jack Holden v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud | When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do courts … |
| 18-8581 | Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud | Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights |
| 18-1049 | Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Amici (3) | criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi… |
| 18-7231 | Mark J. Avery v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud | Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru… |
| 18-6676 | Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud | Whether Mr. Wilmore's right to be tried on charges accepted by a grand jury, and Mr. Wilmore's right to effective assistance of counsel, were violated… |
| 18-6660 | Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute |
| 18-6299 | Jonathan Wade Dunning v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appraisal appraisal-disclosure criminal-intent duty-to-disclose joint-ownership market-value property-purchase property-sale purchase-price scheme-or-artifice-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Has a defendant engaged in a 'scheme or artifice to defraud' when the defendant purchases property based on a methodologically sound appraisal without… |
| 18-6279 | Samuel Kwushue v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud | Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit… |
| 18-6046 | Michael Skillern v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud | did-the-district-court-violate-the-sixth-amendment |
| 18-5353 | Juanita L. Berry v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process income-classification income-tax irs-regulations loans loss-calculation promissory-notes property-rights tax tax-evasion tax-law wire-fraud | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's legal holding that promissory notes between Berry and a vendor were income and no… |
| 18-11 | Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |