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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember the CO County Clerk who is being investigated for breaching election security?
The Pillowfool is saying he is hiding her...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lindell-tina-peters-colorado-q-b1906133.html

hlthe2b
(107,660 posts)marble falls
(62,957 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,346 posts)that they look under the bed
Deacon Blue
(252 posts)Sequestered in an out-of-state "safe house". She's a backwoods county clerk who illegally copied data from elections machines, and shared that data, along with passwords for the machines, with far-right disinformation outlets with the intention of advancing the bogus claims of election fraud. As such, the FBI would like to speak with her. That's not a situation that calls for fleeing the state to hide out in a safe house provided by a delusional pillow magnate.
AND Unexplainable flight can be admissible evidence of conscious awareness of guilt, as are many other process crimes (quotes for emphasis not minimization, throwing sand in the refs eyes is a stand-alone offense, i.e., Manafort, Stone, Nixon) like destroying evidence, suborning perjury, witness tampering, jury tampering. The cover-up can be worse than the crime. Just another form of cheating. Rotten fuckers.
AND No privilege for any communications between these brainless twits, and hiding witnesses, much less possible felons, runs afoul of many statutes, Federal and state. Are others involved? Then you have a conspiracy to violate these laws. And ignorance (no matter how fucking stupid the perpetrator may be) is no defense.
Oh yeah, crossing state lines in the course of carrying out a crime, or furthering a conspiracy? Add another count to the indictment.
getagrip_already
(17,624 posts)Obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting a fugitive. He could also face charges of conspiracy after the fact.
Assuming of course there is a warrant out for her arrest. But it's not a smart move even if she is wanted for questioning.
crickets
(26,158 posts)The FBI tends to take note of that kind of thing.
hookaleft
(996 posts)struggle4progress
(121,176 posts)Whoever moves or travels in interstate .. commerce with intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees, for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the fugitive flees, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of such place, is charged, or (3) to avoid service of, or contempt proceedings for alleged disobedience of, lawful process requiring attendance and the giving of testimony or the production of documentary evidence before an agency of a State empowered by the law of such State to conduct investigations of alleged criminal activities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both ... https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1073
struggle4progress
(121,176 posts)Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3