Ciminelli v. United States

Decided May 11, 2023. Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 21-1170 · 598 U.S. 306 · Cited 70 times

The Second Circuit’s right-to-control theory—under which the Government can establish federal wire fraud by showing that the defendant schemed to deprive a victim of potentially valuable economic information necessary to make discretionary economic decisions—cannot form the basis for a conviction under the federal fraud statutes because the right to control is not grounded in a traditional property interest.

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