Dorsey Partner, William Michael Jr. discusses that "...In 1987, with its decision in McNally v. United States, the Supreme Court limited the broad use of one of the federal prosecutors’ main statutes when they decided that '[t]he mail fraud statute clearly protects property rights,…[it] does not refer to the intangible right of the citizenry to good government.'"
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