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Originally Posted by meeera
This appears to be a wire fraud conviction, not stealing.
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Wire Fraud
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Federal prosecutors tend to use wire fraud as "catch-all" type of crime. When prosecutors are unable to prove other serious fraud crimes, they often have enough to prove wire fraud.
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I think this is, morally, akin to shoplifting made-in-the-U.S.A. item(s), for your own use, while in the UK, and then American authorities arrest you and try to apply our draconian penalties.
I put the s in items in parentheses because he was he was only convicted of one count.