Prosecuting Computer Crimes Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section Criminal Division

183 highlights to the Department of Justice guide to reviewing computer crimes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11tbgHgDg8qagomO-NBffvIFpxXKmBC3g/view?usp=d... The Supreme Court has recognized that the mail and wire fraud statutes sweep more broadly than the common law definition of fraud and false pretenses. Durland v. United States, 161 U.S. 306, 313-14 (1896).5 However, the Court also rejected the notion that every “scheme or artifice that in its necessary consequence is one which is calculated to injure another [or] to deprive him of his property wrongfully.”