Desmond v. Delaware

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that \[d]epriving a victim of 'potentially valuable' information necessarily creates a risk of tangible economic harm\ (emphasis omitted)
• discussing merchandising company employees' testimony that company executive who steered company to particular vendor in exchange for kickbacks deprived company of specific cost savings and better-quality goods
• approving a jury instruction that explained that \the right to control one's assets is injured when a victim is deprived of potentially valuable economic information it would consider valuable in deciding how to use its assets\
• forfeiture ten times the maximum fine under the guidelines is not excessive where other indicia established the seriousness of the offense
• \[M]isrepresentations or non–disclosure of information cannot support a [wire fraud] conviction under the 'right to control' theory unless those misrepresentations or non–disclosures can or do result in tangible economic harm.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).