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We Build the Wall is a Florida not for profit corporation with a Texas mailing address. What is the rationale for SDNY having jurisdiction in this case? Go Fund Me is a California Company. Probably incorporated in Delaware. Does this create SDNY jurisdiction?


26 posted on 08/20/2020 7:33:09 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($;)
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They raised money for it from ads and people in NY.


32 posted on 08/20/2020 7:36:57 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: TheConservativeBanker
We Build the Wall is a Florida not for profit corporation with a Texas mailing address. What is the rationale for SDNY having jurisdiction in this case? Go Fund Me is a California Company. Probably incorporated in Delaware. Does this create SDNY jurisdiction?

ONE person in NYC donated $5, once!

115 posted on 08/20/2020 8:47:53 AM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: TheConservativeBanker
We Build the Wall is a Florida not for profit corporation with a Texas mailing address. What is the rationale for SDNY having jurisdiction in this case? Go Fund Me is a California Company. Probably incorporated in Delaware. Does this create SDNY jurisdiction?

Under 18 U.S. Code § 3237 (a), "[a]ny offense involving the use of the mails, transportation in interstate or foreign commerce, or the importation of an object or person into the United States is a continuing offense and, except as otherwise expressly provided by enactment of Congress, may be inquired of and prosecuted in any district from, through, or into which such commerce, mail matter, or imported object or person moves."

173 posted on 08/20/2020 1:20:49 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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