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  • If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on the mail-fraud count and 10 years for the theft count, as well as a maximum fine of $250,000.

    Contractor Fraud Alleged Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • Attorney Preet Bharara announced yesterday had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail-fraud charges and is cooperating against Monserrate.

    Henry J. Stern: Hiram and Julissa Henry J. Stern 2010

  • Attorney Preet Bharara announced yesterday had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail-fraud charges and is cooperating against Monserrate.

    Henry J. Stern: Hiram and Julissa Henry J. Stern 2010

  • The defendants were charged with mail-fraud conspiracy and a bribery conspiracy, and each faces up to 20 years in prison on the mail-fraud conspiracy charge.

    Wide Day-Care Fraud Is Alleged 2010

  • Attorney Preet Bharara announced yesterday had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail-fraud charges and is cooperating against Monserrate.

    Henry J. Stern: Hiram and Julissa Henry J. Stern 2010

  • The contrast with recklessness in the strong sense in which the term is used to denote the standard in constitutional, mail-fraud, and public-figure defamation cases isstark.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Limbaugh Have a Libel Suit Against CNN? 2009

  • Mr. Israel, 48 years old, pleaded guilty in September 2005 in a New York federal court to conspiracy, investment-adviser fraud and mail-fraud charges and had been released on bail.

    Manhunt Is Launched 2008

  • Federal prosecutors are set to announce the indictments of the two men in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court as early as Thursday on securities -, wire - and mail-fraud charges, people familiar with the matter say.

    Prosecutors in Bear Case 2008

  • Siegelman later was convicted, along with HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, on bribery and mail-fraud charges in the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery.

    How a Corrupt Bushie Operates in Alabama 2008

  • People that engage in mail-fraud or securities fraud and so forth, we need to have the same power to deal with them that we do with other criminals.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2001 2001

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