... bit cruel, but no one would think it should be punished with five years in federal prison" (Miles 2010.) This is the idea behind mail fraud as it was to deceive the recipient in order to promote one's own personal goals. This becomes a problem when taxpayer money becomes involved ... case of when one made it to the appeals court with Judge Easterbrook, "It presented two challenges to the adequacy of the evidence of mail fraud: whether the use of the mails was sufficiently connected to the scheme to defraud, and whether the scheme was de vised to obtain money ... , representations, or p...

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