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Lee-Lee

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59. I don't see anything in the US Code treating them differently

Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:14 AM

Apr 2017

The law that would be used to prosecute in such cases is the same, and to prosecute you need to show the omission was intentional.

There is no prosecutor anywhere who would take a case to trial of someone who submitted the paperwork and ten next day contacted them and said they made a mistake and would submit corrections.

It would be like someone who did their taxes and the next day noticed an error and contacted the IRS immediately and said they were working on fixing the problem, before the IRS even noticed. Would you be able to prosecute that as tax fraud? Of course not, no jury would ever convict.

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I have never read he corrected it the next day. babylonsister Apr 2017 #14

Here is where I am seeing that Lee-Lee Apr 2017 #50

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I don't see anything in the US Code treating them differently Lee-Lee Apr 2017 #59

Which means Lieu is not credible. That's disappointing, I thought he might be someone who JudyM Apr 2017 #30

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Either Lieu or Lee-Lee is not credible HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #54

Given what we know how could they prosecute this? Lee-Lee Apr 2017 #56

Perhaps Lieu is not credible then HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #58

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