McNally v. United States,
483 U.S. 350 (1987), was a case in which the
United States Supreme Court decided that the federal statute criminalizing
mail fraud applied only to the schemes and artifices defrauding victims of money or property, as opposed to those defrauding citizens of their rights to good government. The case was superseded one year later when the
United States Congress amended the law to specifically include
honest services fraud in the mail and
wire fraud statutes.