The Supreme Court Reads Another White-Collar Statute Narrowly

May 9, 2025  |  New York Law Journal

The Supreme Court has taken a close look at white-collar criminal statutes in recent years, and on each occasion the Court has given the provision in question a narrow reading.  So the recent decision in Thompson v. United States, 145 S. Ct. 821 (2025), was no surprise.  The Supreme Court unanimously held that a statute that criminalizes false statements to the FDIC, 18 U.S.C. § 1014 , reaches “false” statements —but not “misleading” statements.  In their latest article for the NYLJ, “The Supreme Court Reads Another White-Collar Statute Narrowly,” Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello Partners Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan S. Sack seek to place the Thompson decision in the context of the Court’s approach to other white-collar criminal statutes, and they suggest how the Thompson decision may be relevant in other cases.

The Supreme Court Reads Another White-Collar Statute Narrowly