United States Supreme Court

Defendant's conviction for violating the federal bank fraud state, 18 U.S.C. section 1344(2), which makes it a crime to knowingly execute a scheme to obtain property owned by, or under the custody of, a bank by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiff was caught forging stolen checks, using them to buy goods at a Target store, and then returning the goods for cash; 2) section 1344(2) does not require the Government to prove that a defendant intended to defraud a financial institution; and thus, 3) the District Court did not err in declining to give defendant's proposed jury instruction that a conviction under section 1344(2) required proof of "intent to defraud a financial institution."

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/23/2014
• Published 06/23/2014

Judges

• KAGAN

Court

• United States Supreme Court

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