A week after federal prosecutors scored a unanimous victory in a securities law challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, they notched another win Monday in prosecutions under the federal bank fraud law.

In Shaw v. United States, the justices, ruling 8-0, rejected Lawrence Shaw’s arguments that the federal crime of bank fraud did not apply to him because he intended to cheat a bank depositor, not a bank.

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