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Originally Posted by Sly
The wire fraud charges seem kind of odd. I can see the civil suit for sure, the criminal suit I'm kind of confused about. Is there a precedent for this?
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Every crime committed over a transmittal system can be wire fraud.
What do you think the internet is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_fraud
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Wire fraud, in the United States Code, is any criminally fraudulent activity that has been determined to have involved electronic communications of any kind, at any phase of the event. The involvement of electronic communications adds to the severity of the penalty,...
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