Title 18 Section 1343

Title 18 crimes and criminal procedure part i crimes 1 2725 chapter 63 mail fraud and other fraud offenses 1341 1351 section 1343 fraud by wire radio or television.

Title 18 section 1343. From title 18 crimes and criminal procedurepart i crimeschapter 63 mail fraud and other fraud offenses. Laundering of monetary instruments. 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.

The elements of wire fraud under section 1343 directly parallel those of the mail fraud statute but require the use of an interstate telephone call or electronic communication made in furtherance of the scheme. 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 transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce any writings signs signals pictures or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years or both. Title 18 crimes and criminal procedure part i crimes 1 2725 chapter 63 mail fraud and other fraud offenses 1341 1351 section 1343 fraud by wire radio or television.

Minor changes in phraseology were made. Title 18 crimes and criminal procedure part i crimes chapter 63 mail fraud and other fraud offenses head. Fraud by wire radio or television.

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 transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce any writings signs signals pictures or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice shall be fined. 1343 elements of wire fraud. Historical and revision notes.

Shall be sentenced to a fine of not more than 500 000 or twice the value of the property involved in the transaction whichever is greater or imprisonment for not more than twenty years or both. 321 216 35 stat. Fraud by wire radio or television.

The punishment language used in section 1341 of this title was substituted in lieu of the reference to it in this section.