Ok, well you are not really responding to my points. If funds went (250k not a million, according to a previous poster) to a non-profit that would have paid him the same amount anyway, yeah it does make a big difference. The indictment says he set it up personally - does it say he did not use a lawyer or accountant because reliance on expert professional advice may under some circumstances be a defense to crimes requiring the establishment of intent. If four people are charged with personally setting up the arrangement, is it likely that there were varying degrees of knowledge about what was going on? Perhaps. I don’t know what the facts are and would urge others to realize that they do not either.
The facts alleged in the indictment are actually pretty simple compared to most crimes. It is a simple fraud case. They promised donors in exchange for money donations that they were not taking one penny in salary or otherwise when in fact they were. Pretty simple stuff.
A million ended up in banning account and 350000 in Koflage account. Koflage sent a written text to have his share paid to his wife’s name so he wouldn’t be publicly seen taking money after he represented that he wasn’t taking any money.
This is not going to be a difficult case to prosecute.