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manvillej on Dec 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to s...

what exactly is wire fraud?

it seems like its basically "If you get money from lying electronically, go to jail"

alistairSH on Dec 1, 2023 [–]

That's the gist of it. It's basically a modernization of previously existing mail fraud statutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_wire_fraud

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