> But isn’t wire fraud harder to prove than leaking classified facts? No. From the Justice Department's own criminal resource manual: > the four essential ele

> But isn’t wire fraud harder to prove than leaking classified facts? No. From the Justice Department's own criminal resource manual: > the four essential elements of the crime of wire fraud are: > (1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another out of money; > (2) that the defendant did so with the intent to defraud; > (3) that it was reasonably foreseeable that interstate wire communications would be used; and > (4) that interstate wire communications were in fact used https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-941-18-usc-1343-elements-wire-fraud https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... Generally, to be successfully prosecuted for a crime, the prosecutor has to show that each and every "element" of the crime has to have happened. On the above page, there were 3 different court precedents who ruled what elements that the prosecutor needed to prove were in those cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(criminal_law)# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(criminal_law)#