Post Office Fraud
Because the United States Postal Service is a federal organization, conducting mail fraud in New York or elsewhere in the country is a federal crime. If you are convicted, it can lead to extremely serious consequences. However, five conditions have to be met before an act is considered mail fraud, according to the Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
These include the following:
• You were involved in a plan to deceive someone in order to take his or her money.
• Your plan included the use of false statements or left out important information.
• If your plan succeeded, it caused or would have caused someone to lose money, property or honest services.
• In advancing or developing your plan, you used the U.S. mail.
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These include the following:
• You were involved in a plan to deceive someone in order to take his or her money.
• Your plan included the use of false statements or left out important information.
• If your plan succeeded, it caused or would have caused someone to lose money, property or honest services.
• In advancing or developing your plan, you used the U.S. mail.
• You