Criminal Resource Manual 1640 Definition -- "Knowing Conversion"

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1640
Definition—"Knowing Conversion"

Knowing conversion completes the picture of 18 U.S.C. § 641 by prohibiting all other deliberate wrongful uses of government property. See Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 271-72 (1952), for a description of this broad provision.
[cited in USAM 9-66.200]

1640	Definition—"Knowing Conversion"
Knowing conversion completes the picture of 18 U.S.C. § 641 by prohibiting all other deliberate wrongful uses of government property. See Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 271-72 (1952), for a description of this broad provision. [cited in USAM 9-66.200]