This essay focuses on preferred candidate win the Senate election. Wentworth has unlimited monies but he is subject to the strict limits placed on individual contributions to one specific Senator’s campaigns.
Assignment #2 William Wentworth, a wealthy and influential business owner, had a vested interest in seeing his preferred candidate win the Senate election. Wentworth has unlimited monies but he is subject to the strict limits placed on individual contributions to one specific Senator’s campaigns. asked all one hundred employees to write $1,000 personal checks in order to make contributions to Senator X’s federal election campaign. then reimbursed each employee, in the form of a check or cash, the exact amount of the checks they wrote. Senator X’s campaign staff is required to file reports that include contributors’ names with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). And Senator X’s campaign treasurers were seemingly unaware that the FEC campaign finance reports. They filed were actually false due to Wentworth’s ability to conceal.
In what ways, if any, have Wentworth and the campaign treasurers violated 18 U.S.C. Section 1001? Be sure to reference what mental state is required under 18 U.S.C. Section 2. Please cite applicable federal regulations, statutes or cases in support of your analysis. 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive .Legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully– (1) falsifies. Conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or (3)
knowing the same to contain any materially false. Fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title, imprison not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as define in section 2331 ), . Section 2 Unannotate Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure 2. Principals (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels.
Commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal. Whoever willfully causes an act to be did which if directly perform by him or another. Would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal. Please complete in IRAC Style of writing ******Cases that can be use as a source – United State v. Licciardi and United States v. Walser
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