>> Can’t one person have more than one indictments?
Yes. And one sealed indictment can also name more than one person or entity.
So there is not a one-to-one match of indictments with people.
But I’d say that with 75,000 indictments, a good estimate is that there are 75,000 people named. JMO.
I fully expect that certain people are going to be named in multiple indictments, but imagine if every single one names HRC, do you think she managed to commit 75,000 crimes all by herself? I would expect that if certain people are named multiple times (and I expect they are) that many of the indictments that name them also name others with whom s/he was working.
And I’d expect a really busy criminal who is active in multiple areas to have different criminal partners in different areas. So one group of partners for drug crimes, another group for human trafficking, etc. Even with overlap, I expect a LOT of names.
Another thing I’ve been thinking about....
Assume for a moment that there are 75,000 people responsible for all the corruption in the USA out of a population of 300 million. That’s 0.025% of the population. That means that 99.975% of the population is NOT corrupt and that 0.025% has been abusing the other 99.975%.
I just looked up the US population and one site says it’s 328 million. (No idea if that counts illegals or what.) That means an even smaller percentage of the population has been abusing us.
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Thanks for details. And I assume that one person can be named in more than one indictment since most of these that we are familiar with have committed multiple crimes, and multiple counts are common. It’s mind boggling.
We also must keep the definition and intent of an indictment out front so that even a Soi-boi understands.
Indictments are charges of a crime backed by a consensus of evidence. They allow for a criminal investigation and POSSIBLE arrest and trial.
That is why it is so important to have as many as possible in the pipeline AND as many intertwined with one another. This allows criminal investigators to gather evidence through co-conspirators and the like.
75K indictments will not result in 75K criminal charges, let alone 75K individuals in a frog parade.