JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.
The National Stolen Property Act provides for the imposition of criminal penalties upon any person who "transports in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by fraud." 18 U. S. C. § 2314. In this case, we must determine whether the statute reaches the interstate transportation...
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