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minus-squareLedivin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoThe report wasn’t released, was it? So there’s nothing to follow up on
minus-squaremasterofn001@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 month agoWell, there is the fact that she has admitted to knowingly hiding scandals. In other words, she is an accessory, after the fact, to crimes.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 month ago“I AM HIDING CRIMINAL SCANDALS INVOLVING MASTEROFN001! LOTS AND LOTS OF SCANDALS!” I don’t need a law degree to walk myself out of that one, and neither does she.
minus-squaremasterofn001@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoIf you admit to being an accessory, or claim to be, that would be broadcasting that you have committed a crime. If someone says they have commited a crime, they need to be investigated for the crime(s) they claim to have commited (accessory, obstruction, etc). Walk back all you want. It’s either libel or it’s complicity in a cover-up or blackmail or extortion.
The report wasn’t released, was it? So there’s nothing to follow up on
Well, there is the fact that she has admitted to knowingly hiding scandals.
In other words, she is an accessory, after the fact, to crimes.
“I AM HIDING CRIMINAL SCANDALS INVOLVING MASTEROFN001! LOTS AND LOTS OF SCANDALS!”
I don’t need a law degree to walk myself out of that one, and neither does she.
If you admit to being an accessory, or claim to be, that would be broadcasting that you have committed a crime.
If someone says they have commited a crime, they need to be investigated for the crime(s) they claim to have commited (accessory, obstruction, etc).
Walk back all you want.
It’s either libel or it’s complicity in a cover-up or blackmail or extortion.