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Don't you need standing in order to bring fraud charges? If so, you would have to be admitting that you solicited someone for government secrets, which is very
by willis936 5y ago
Don't you need standing in order to bring fraud charges? If so, you would have to be admitting that you solicited someone for government secrets, which is very illegal.
- jrochkind1 5y agoI mean, I guess it's not illegal if you were the FBI, which is what happened here? But yes, it seems a stretch. This sounds increasingly like a Coen brothers movie though, yeah.
- perl4ever 5y agoThe complaint was filed by FBI Special Agent Justin Van Tromp. That definitely sounds like a character in a Coen brothers movie. Something I've always wondered is, why are they all special agents? Is there some place they put all the ordinary agents? Are they the ones that just spend their whole careers in cubicles?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Something I've always wondered is, why are they all special agents? Because that's the job title? > Is there some place they put all the ordinary agents? Training. That is, the lowest rank on the FBI agent career path is apparently “New Agent Trainee” and the next step up is “Special Agent”.
- perl4ever 5y agoOk, moving on...you know what the French call (or called) their nuclear deterrent? "Force de Frappe"!
- pseingatl 5y agoFBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service: they are all "special agents."
- jrochkind1 5y agoIn Lake Wobegon FBI, all the agents are special.
- caf 5y agoThe state always has standing to prosecute crimes, regardless of whether the victim wants them to or not.