>If your employer tells you to build a knife why would you be held responsible for him stabbing someone or themselves? Even if they bragged to you that exactly

>If your employer tells you to build a knife why would you be held responsible for him stabbing someone or themselves? Even if they bragged to you that exactly what they are going to do. This exactly fits the description of abetting a crime: "A charge of aiding and abetting has three requirements. First, someone else must have committed a crime. Second, the defendant must have assisted that person in the commission of the crime. Third, the defendant must have had knowledge of that person's criminal intent or criminal plans." https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/inchoate-crimes/aiding-abetting/ https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/inchoate-crimes/aid... A prosecutor could argue that a VP engineer who made up all those fake identities must have known the reason for it was fraudulent.