The following excerpt is from Bascuñán v. Elsaca, 927 F.3d 108 (2nd Cir. 2019):
The mail and wire fraud statutes, whose labyrinthine language is better taken abridged, "criminalize the use of the mails or wires in furtherance of any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises. " Skilling v. United States , 561 U.S. 358, 369 n.1, 130 S.Ct. 2896, 177 L.Ed.2d 619 (2010) (quoting 18 U.S.C. 1341 (mail fraud); id. 1343 (wire fraud)). "Because the mail fraud and the wire fraud statutes use the same relevant language, we analyze them the same way." United States v. Weaver , 860 F.3d 90, 94 (2d Cir. 2017) (citation omitted).
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