JUSTICE BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.
A federal statute makes it a crime "knowingly [to] execut[e] a scheme ... to defraud a financial institution," 18 U.S.C. § 1344(1), for example, a federally insured bank, 18 U.S.C. § 20. The petitioner, Lawrence Shaw, was convicted of violating this provision. He argues here that the provision...
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