A defendant must intend to harm a bank if he is to be convicted of bank fraud, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled.
Vacating two convictions of a man charged in an identity-theft conspiracy to file and cash phony income tax returns, the circuit held that there is no bank fraud where the bank is only the incidental vehicle for the crime.
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