Washington Law Review
Abstract
In 1988, Congress added section 1346 to the federal mail and wire fraud statutes to overturn the Supreme Court decision of McNally v. United States and provide statutory protection of the "intangible right of honest services." This Comment analyzes the extent to which section 1346 restores the protection of intangible rights as existed prior to McNally and concludes that most if not all of those intangible rights are again covered by the statutes. Further, this Comment recommends that the judiciary limit the application of the mail and wire fraud statutes in the private sector to cases involving a breach of a fiduciary duty which has a "reasonable foreseeability" of causing harm.
First Page
901
Recommended Citation
John E. Gagliardi,
Comment,
Back to the Future: Federal Mail and Wire Fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346,
68 Wash. L. Rev.
901
(1993).
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https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol68/iss4/6