More on the Quellos Individuals Indictment - It is About the Lie

I have now had the opportunity to review the Quellos indictment in more detail. It is all about the lie that, if the allegations are proved, a jury will understand. A jury almost certainly would not understand -- or need to understand -- the complex tax rules which might have applied if the key factual underpinning were true. The jury will understand the lie. And, the gravamen of the instructions to the jury will be that, if the jury finds that prosecutors prove the lie they allege, the defendants should be found guilty.

Let's look at the counts and the lie. At the risk of oversimplication, I simplify and thus omit much of the detail.
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