05-31-2024, 06:17 PM
(05-31-2024, 05:02 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You either didn't read the article or you didn't understand what you read.
Maybe you didn’t understand what I wrote? Tell me where I’m going wrong.
Did he falsify business records? Yes
Did he falsify business records in order to help get himself elected? Yes he was in the middle of a presidential campaign and committed fraud to bury an embarrassing story.
Does New York have a law about that? Yes
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152
Conspiracy to promote or prevent election. Any two or more
persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to
a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by
one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Does New York have a law that bumps falsifying business records up to a felony when it is part of another crime? Yes
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.10
Falsifying business records in the first degree.
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree
when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second
degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit
another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.
