White Collar Crimes
This fraud scheme pays back later investors with earlier investors money.
What is a "Ponzi" Scheme?
What is the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act?
This person received the longest sentence of 10 years thus far for their involvement in January 6.
Who is Thomas Webster?
This allows for crimes on board aircrafts to be prosecuted by the federal government.
What is Special Aircraft Jurisdiction?
This case establishes a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.
What is Katz v. U.S.
This type of scam involves paying an advanced fee in order to later receive a large sum of money.
In order to successfully prosecute a hate crime, you must prove this.
For this crime, someone may present an affirmative defense and is not guilty of this crime if they renounce what they were doing voluntarily and completely before the commission of the act.
What is solicitation?
These people were charged with severe crimes on aircrafts for putting an exposive in their shoe and underwear, respectively.
Who is Richard Reid and Farouk Abdulmutallab?
What is the Third Party Doctrine?
This fraudster spent fraudulent money on a daughter's private school education, 2 jaguars, and invested the money on their own behalf.
Who is Henry Kyle?
Before prosecuting a hate crime on the federal level, you first must receive this.
What is certification from the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice?
This crime has a maximum sentence of 20 years and several people involved in January 6 have been convicted of it, including Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli.
What is Obstruction of Official Proceedings?
The federal government is taking this type of crime on an aircraft very seriously, despite being uncommon until recently, because it has potential to cause the plane to go down.
What is unruly behavior or interfering with flight crew member or attendant?
This type of surveillance is said to violate reasonable expectations of privacy and do not fall under the third party doctrine when obtained using a subpoena or court order as opposed to using a search warrant, as established in Jones v. U.S., Carpenter v. U.S., and Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore.
What is continuous (24/7) and pervasive surveillance?
This fraudster used hedge funds to defraud victims, promised a 15% rate of return, and got sentenced concurrently.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
Someone who uses or threatens to use force to interfere with another's engagement of enumerated activity because of their race, color, religion, or national origin, has violated this hate crime statute.
What is Interference with Protected Activities?
This judge sentenced this defendant to 7.5 years in prison with 2 years of supervised release for their role in January 6 and called this defendant, "a poster child for all that was danger and appalling about" January 6.
Who is Judge Trevor McFadden and Patrick McCaughey?
A president is more likely to give a pardon or clemency to someone who has been involved with these crimes.
What are white collar crimes? What are drug crimes that were sentenced for a long time?
What are offending the jury, getting an appeal, and getting an acquittal?
A person who sells drugs receives $10,000 in cash. They gamble $5,000, invest $2,000, and put a down payment on a car with $3,000. This person has committed a ____ by engaging in a ____.
Someone who conspires with 1 or more other people to injure, oppress, and/or intimidate another to interfere with their free exercise of any Constitutional or Statutory right has committed this. This can be proven by ____ and does not require ____, but may need ___ to receive a penalty.
What is Civil Rights Conspiracy? What is an agreement? What is an interstate nexus? What is injury?
This is the longest sentence the government has sought for January 6.
What is 24 years?
This is one of the major issues with Donald Trump's Indictment.
What is a simple indictment? What is lack of explanation on what makes his crime a felony?
These two factors are what a judge weighs when deciding whether rap lyrics should be admissible as evidence in a trial.
What are probative value and danger of undue prejudice?