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 1        AN ACT to amend the  Criminal  Code  of  1961  by  adding
 2    Section 17-23.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 6    adding Section 17-23 as follows:

 7        (720 ILCS 5/17-23 new)
 8        Sec. 17-23.  Fraudulent schemes and artifices.
 9        (a)  Fraud by wire, radio, or television.
10             (1)  A person commits wire fraud when he or she:
11                  (A)  devises  or  intends to devise a scheme or
12             artifice to defraud or to obtain money  or  property
13             by  means  of  false  pretenses, representations, or
14             promises; and
15                  (B)  (i)  transmits or causes to be transmitted
16                  from within this State; or
17                       (ii)  transmits   or    causes    to    be
18                  transmitted  so that it is received by a person
19                  within this State; or
20                       (iii)  transmits   or   causes    to    be
21                  transmitted    so   that   it   is   reasonably
22                  foreseeable that  it  will  be  accessed  by  a
23                  person within this State:
24        any writings, signals, pictures, sounds, or electronic or
25        electric  impulses by means of wire, radio, or television
26        communications for the purpose of executing the scheme or
27        artifice.
28             (2)  A  scheme  or   artifice   to   defraud   using
29        electronic transmissions is deemed to occur in the county
30        from which a transmission is sent, if the transmission is
31        sent from within this State, the county in which a person
 
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 1        within  this  State  receives  the  transmission, and the
 2        county in which a person who  is  within  this  State  is
 3        located when the person accesses a transmission.
 4             (3)  Wire fraud is a Class 3 felony.
 5        (b)  Mail fraud.
 6             (1) A person commits mail fraud when he or she:
 7                  (A)  devises or intends to devise any scheme or
 8             artifice  to  defraud or to obtain money or property
 9             by  means  of   false   or   fraudulent   pretenses,
10             representations or promises, or to sell, dispose of,
11             loan,   exchange,   alter,  give  away,  distribute,
12             supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful  use  any
13             counterfeit  obligation, security, or other article,
14             or anything represented to be or intimidated or held
15             out to be such counterfeit or spurious article; and
16                  (B)  for the purpose of executing  such  scheme
17             or  artifice  or  attempting so to do, places in any
18             post office or authorized depository for mail matter
19             within this State, any matter or thing  whatever  to
20             be  delivered  by the Postal Service, or deposits or
21             causes to be deposited in this State by mail  or  by
22             private  or  commercial  carrier  according  to  the
23             direction on the matter or thing, or at the place at
24             which  it  is directed to be delivered by the person
25             to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing.
26             (2)  A  scheme  or  artifice  to  defraud  using   a
27        government  or  private carrier is deemed to occur in the
28        county in which mail or other matter  is  deposited  with
29        the  Postal  Service  or a private commercial carrier for
30        delivery, if deposited  with  the  Postal  Service  or  a
31        private  or  commercial carrier within this State and the
32        county in which a person within this State  receives  the
33        mail or other matter from the Postal Service or a private
34        or commercial carrier.
 
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 1             (3)  Mail fraud is a Class 3 felony.
 2        (c)  Financial institution fraud.
 3             (1)  A  person  is  guilty  of financial institution
 4        fraud who knowingly executes or  attempts  to  execute  a
 5        scheme or artifice:
 6                  (i)  to defraud a financial institution; or
 7                  (ii)  to  obtain  any  of  the  moneys,  funds,
 8             credits, assets, securities, or other property owned
 9             by,  or  under the custody or control of a financial
10             institution, by means of pretenses, representations,
11             or promises he or she knows to be false.
12             (2)  Financial  institution  fraud  is  a  Class   3
13        felony.
14        (d)  The  period  of  limitations  for prosecution of any
15    offense defined in this Section begins at the time  when  the
16    last  act  in  furtherance  of  the  scheme  or  artifice  is
17    committed.
18        (e)  In this Section:
19             (1)  "Scheme  or  artifice  to  defraud"  includes a
20        scheme or artifice to deprive another of  the  intangible
21        right to honest services.
22             (2)  "Financial   institution"   has   the   meaning
23        ascribed  to  it  in  paragraph  (i) of subsection (A) of
24        Section 17-1 of this Code.

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