These sort of non-identifying releases happen often in reporting adverse events for medications in medical trials. This is certainly not a crime. HIPAA covers the identity of the patient, not the procedures or medical events that happened to them. This should be thrown out of court immediately as there is no harmed party.
But then, Trump’s “hush payments” case should have had the same but didn’t.
Somebody on the Q thread posted this, which I think should be applied to all people involved in prosecuting non-crimes, including Alvin Bragg and his whole cohort, as well as the Asst US Attorney in this case
Actually, as I think of it now, couldn’t the whole J6 Committee and Nancy Pelosi be prosecuted on the basis of this because they tried to remove Trump through impeachment even though they had all this exculpatory evidence?
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241