The verbiage is interesting.
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that government agents – FBI agents – arrested (i.e., dragged away in handcuffs, to a cage) Volkswagen Group executive Oliver Schmidt, who headed the company’s regulatory compliance office, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
How does one “conspire to defraud the U.S.”?
Or rather, if one does – so what?
Isn’t it like conspiring to defraud the tooth fairy?
It’s not a he or a she, an actual person, after all. A someone (or someones) who can be victimized. Like a corporation, the United States is a legal construct. It has no flesh and blood. You cannot hurt “the United States” any more than you can hurt a dictionary.
Or the tooth fairy.
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