U.S. COURT OF APPEALS SAYS FRAUD ACT CLAIMS MUST BE FILED WITHIN SEVEN YEARS OF THE ORIGINAL CLAIM
publication date: Feb 15, 2004
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District Court's dismissal of a Major Fraud Act indictment for failure to file within the seven year statute of limitations. Meetings to further the cause of the original fraud did not extend the fraud for the purpose of the statute of limitations.
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