ESTATE OF WITKOWSKI

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• McNALLY v. United States, 483 U.S. 350 (U.S. 1987)
  …Of course, “the fact that a scheme may or may not violate State law does not determine whether it is within the proscriptions of the federal statute.” United States v. Edwards, 458 F. 2d 875, 880 (CA5), cert. denied sub nom. Huie v. United States, 409 U. S. 891 (1972). See Margiotta, 688 F. 2d, at 124; Mandel, 591 F. 2d, at 1361; Brown, 540 F. 2d, at 374, n. 7; Bush, 522 F. 2d, at 646, n. 6. The mail fraud statute is a self-contained provision, which does not rely on any state enactments for its force. Cf.…
• United States v. Margiotta, 688 F.2d 108 (2d Cir. 1982)
  …, careful construction is especially appropriate where, as here, the [mail fraud] statute threatens to reach criminal conduct in the field of domestic relations which the state can, and should, effectively and appropriately control.”), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 891, 93 S.Ct. 118, 34 L.Ed.2d 148 (1972); United States v. Kelem, 416 F. 2d 346, 347 (9th Cir. 1969), cert. denied, 397 U.S. 952, 90 S.Ct. 977, 25 L.Ed.2d 134 (1970). . The legislative history of the mail fraud statute gives no indication that the stat…
• United States v. Keane, 522 F.2d 534 (7th Cir. 1975)
  …obtain a conviction for mail fraud. United States v. States, 488 F. 2d 761, 767 (8th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 417 U.S. 909 and 950, 94 S.Ct. 2605, 41 [*545] L.Ed.2d 212 (1974); United States v. Edwards, 458 F. 2d 875, 880 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 891, 93 S.Ct. 118, 34 L.Ed.2d 148 (1972). Rather the “[l]aw puts its imprimatur on . accepted moral standards and condemns conduct which fails to match the ‘reflection of moral uprightness, of fundamental honesty, fair play and right dealing in the gene…

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