Category Archives: Financial Crimes
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud: How 18 USC 1349 Expands Liability Beyond the Person Who Sent the Wire
Conspiracy to commit wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349 carries the same penalties as the completed crime, up to 20 years in federal prison per count. The statute does not require the government to prove that any fraud actually occurred. It does not require proof that the defendant personally sent a single email, made…
Polymarket Insider Trading and Federal Wire Fraud: What the Van Dyke Indictment Means
Polymarket insider trading just stopped being theoretical. On April 23, 2026, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed a five-count indictment that turned a U.S. Army Master Sergeant’s four-day Polymarket trading spree into a federal wire fraud and money laundering case, complete with a $404,000 forfeiture demand and the personal signature of…
