Harry Sandick and Caitlyn Wigler
On Could 22, 2025, the Supreme Court docket endorsed the “fraudulent inducement” principle of wire fraud in Kousisis v. United States, departing from its latest development 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 with the intention to get hold of property from one other.
