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Originally posted by: MoneyLA Marcus: No one commits a crime by promoting a system for legal gambling. Even a system that you consider to be worthless is not a criminal enterprise.
My, God, you are an idiot. You should just wear a sign that says "I won't let the facts get in the way of my opinions." My entire point is that you are getting involved in a game YOU CANNOT WIN. Kneeland and "Dancer" have the GOOD SENSE to not get involved.
Here is a discussion of the relevant crime, from
https://definitions.uslegal.com/s/scheme-or-artifice-to-defraud/
"A scheme or artifice to defraud is not capable of precise definition, but generally is a plan or trick to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services or obtain, by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, money or property from someone. It is the deprivation of something of value by trick, chicane, or overreaching. The concept of 'fraud' includes the act of embezzlement, which is the fraudulent appropriation to one's own use of the money or goods entrusted to one's own care by another. A ‘scheme to defraud’ connotes some form of planning or pattern.
In the context of mail fraud, a "scheme or artifice to defraud," as used in the forner mail fraud statute, was "limited in scope to the protection of property rights" and the courts found the statute did not prohibit schemes to deprive people of the intangible right to good government and honest services. In response, Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. Section 1346 (1994), which states that "[f]or the purposes of this chapter, the term`scheme or artifice to defraud' includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."
And now it's time for Slapinfunk to chime in about something off topic and completely irrelevant:
