Harry Sandick and Caitlyn Wigler
On Could 22, 2025, the Supreme Courtroom endorsed the “fraudulent inducement” concept of wire fraud in Kousisis v. United States, departing from its current pattern of narrowing the scope of broadly worded felony statutes, together with the wire fraud statute. This resolution seems to permit the federal government to acquire a conviction even the place the defendant didn’t intend to trigger financial hurt to their counterparty, as long as the defendant made materials false statements in an effort to acquire property from one other.
