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Exploiting government-funded schools program constitutes fraud, even though no regulations were violated

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 23 2010

A consultant assisting local schools in obtaining federally-distributed funds intended to facilitate Internet connectivity at the schools was charged with defrauding the program, even though the funding applications which she prepared did not violate any of the regulations of the program

Eleventh Circuit limits reach of Section 666 by narrowly construing "agent of the state" element

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2010

We noted here recently the first signs of an effort among courts of appeal to temper the reach of 18 U.S.C. 666, long a favorite tool of prosecutors seeking to federalize misdeeds by local and state officials