bripat9643
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What does any of that have to do with "collusion?"But conspire to do what?....have pizza for lunch? there must be a crime to investigate a president and we still do not know what that is....you and the left don't care if there was a crime or a law broken you just are happy to see the investigation go on and on and on...but in the end if there was no crime committed we have a 17 million dollar and counting witch hunt on our hands....collusion isn't a crime. but conspiracy is
conspire to defraud the united states.
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Hass, 216 U.S. at 479-480. In Hammerschmidt, Chief Justice Taft, defined "defraud" as follows: To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest. It is not necessary that the Government shall be subjected to property or pecuniary loss by the fraud, but only that its legitimate official action and purpose shall be defeated by misrepresentation, chicane or the overreaching of those charged with carrying out the governmental intention.
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923. 18 U.S.C. § 371—Conspiracy to Defraud the United States | USAM | Department of Justice
BTW- that is only one of several charges that paul manafort is going away for...