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Gregory L. Poe Sep 5th, 2009Conrad Black and Special Verdicts

The Conrad Black case, now in the Supreme Court, has received a great deal of recent attention largely because the Court has agreed to revisit the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (which states that “the term ‘scheme or artifice to defraud’” as used in the mail and wire fraud statutes “includes a scheme or [...]