prosecute someone. so the one that i think is most interesting is a related one called conspiracy to defraud the united states which means to prevent the government from carrying out one of its legally assigned duties and we've already seen this surface in the mueller investigation when special counsel mueller obtained the grand jury indictment of 12 russians and three russian organizations in february for the covert campaign to manipulate american social media, to help the trump campaign in 2016, the first charge he brought against them was conspiracy to defraud the united states specifically to prevent the federal election commission from carrying out his duty to keep americans informed about money and campaigns and who is supporting what candidates and prevent foreign assistance to domestic political campaigns. since that charge has already surfaced in this very context, i think if i were on donald trump