Concord Consulting Aims to Make Russian Bots Legal https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/05/14/concord-aims-to-make-russian-bots-legal/ …
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The first Concord motion posed a delayed risk to Mueller's project. This poses a more immediate one, IMO, for two reasons. First, if they win, any foreign company could plead stupidity about US election law.
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More urgently, if they win they could undermine the effort to set up conspiracy structures to lay out the "collusion" between Trump people and Russia, both on the trolling (which names 3 campaign officials) and other activities.
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I thought pleading stupid wasn't really a defense? BTW, the FECA is very clear about in-kind contributions made by foreign nationals (it isn't fuzzy law):https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/ …
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Yup, but they'll say that no one knew trolling was a contribution.
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Well, we'll see how it turns out...but that trolling was paid for by some foreign nationals and the intent was to impact a US election -- unlike, you know, giving a bad review on weak IPA. The FECA is pretty broad when it comes to foreign involvement.
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Dumb don’t last. 22 USC Sec. 618(e) Failure to file any registration statement or supps. as is reqd by either secs. 612(a)or612(b) shall be considered a continuing offense for as long as such failure exists, notw/standing any statute of limitation or other statute 2 the contrary.
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