(09-27-2017 11:22 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(09-26-2017 07:33 PM)JRsec Wrote:  The FBI is just tugging on the first few inches of a 5 mile long ball of yarn. The question is do they unroll and investigate all 5 miles or grab some headlines with the first few inches? Who they don't investigate will likely show us the motives for the investigative process. If they investigate the whole 5 miles they will have earned my applause. If they stop with just a few this was a hatchet job on behalf of another party or parties.

Not necessarily. The FBI and the federal prosecutors can only investigate and, if they have enough evidence, prosecute, actions that could be violations of federal law.

Much of your 5 mile ball of yarn is stuff that is incredibly sleazy but might not violate federal law.

I disagree here Wedge. That five miles of yarn almost certainly involves illicit payments of one kind or another. So tax questions arise, money laundering arises, and misuse of non profit is there. That's a very large bailiwick for the FBI to peruse. And even the use of prostitutes as the past few years have made us painfully aware, might in many instances be a violation of the Mann Act.