Originally Posted by
etch5895
For criminals who try to evade their legal obligations...yeah. No problem whatsoever.
Spoken like someone convinced that they will never, ever be considered a criminal.
One of the lessons of the independent counsel investigations of the Bush Sr. and Clinton years is that
everyone can be charged with a crime if government investigators comb through every detail of their lives.
There are more than 3,000 federal crimes, many of which are, in the words of Judge Posner, simultaneously hyper-technical and vague. Do you seriously think a team of promotion-grubbing FBI agents, overseen by a prosecutor jonesing to run for office, won't find something in your past upon which to base an indictment? Merely defending yourself could ruin you financially. And now you have to worry that your ability to earn a living overseas could be impaired.
It's "no problem whatsoever" until you are targeted.