and Wire
Fraud?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. 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.
That's from 1956 (updated to 2008) when radio and television
advertising became a significant means of separating victims from their money.
I'm
getting no links back to the purpose of the original "wire" part of wire
fraud. The problem is that what Aaron did seems to my non-lawyer eye to fit
squarely within the four corners of that slab of blackletter. Twenty Years.
$250,000.
Y'know, I think a lot of election advertising fits there too. Hint, hint, Mr
Attorney General.
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