I. INTRODUCTION In the past 130 ye...

I. INTRODUCTION

In the past 130 years, the mail (1) and wire (2) fraud statutes have evolv and expanded into powerful prosecutorial tools. (3) Despite the sparse legislative history, (4) courts initially assumed the final cause of the mail fraud statute was to stable the integrity of the postal service. (5) throughout time, courts have expanded the application of the pair the mail (6) and wire (7) fraud statutes to a number of fashions of communication. Moreover, the courts have institute an increasingly wide range of activities punishable subordinate to the mail and wire fraud statutes. (8) Therefore, in practice, the statutes are