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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:15:57 -0500, BAR wrote:


Direct contact or indirect contact? Is there a legal difference?

Is one a crime and the other a conspiracy to commit crime?

IANAL, but, so far, I don't see any crime that Obama was involved in.
I'm not even sure, that if he did pay for the Senate seat, if that would
be a crime. It sure as hell would be distasteful, I'm not sure about a
crime. I suspect, among politicians, *nothing* gets given away for
free. How do you think all that pork gets added to bills? "I'll vote
for your bill, if you will build me a bridge to nowhere."

If Obama knew of the crime and did not report it, he could probably get
charged with conspiracy to commit a crime.