Is the federal reserve a fraud?

an act to set up Federal Reserve Banks in 1913. signed by Woodrow Wilson. Who years later said, "I am a most unhappy man, I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by it's system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson