15 Apr 2026 10:39 am
======================================MR-7 » 15 Apr 2026, 9:31 am » wrote: ↑ Copilot...why did the fbi not pursue Homan?
Homan was not a government official at the timeThis is a major legal barrier.
According to the New York Times summary (via Forbes and CNN):Without that, the case becomes extremely weak.
- Homan was not in government when the sting occurred.
- That makes federal bribery statutes much harder to apply, because bribery laws require an “official act” or “public official.”
So....you sound like the one that is stupid.
“If someone who is not yet a public official, but expects to be, takes bribes in exchange for agreeing to take official acts after they are appointed, they can’t be charged with bribery,” said Randall Eliason, the former chief of public corruption prosecutions in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. and former white-collar law professor. “But they can be charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. In a conspiracy charge, the crime is the agreement to commit a criminal act in the future.”