[AAABEST]

Wrong. Federal venue is the district where the crime was committed.

Okay so the grand jury that's been convened in NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT is a just product of my imagination... you just told me so, I think.

What you're saying is actually correct - if the crime, perp, location were all in DC - like a simple bribery case etc.

That's not what this is, with interstate and even international implications.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Federal law promises criminal defendants a proper venue, i.e., trial in the district in which the federal crime was committed. A crime is committed in any district in which any of its “conduct” elements are committed. Some offenses are committed entirely within a single district; there they must be tried. Others begin in one district and are completed in another. They may be tried where they occur unless Congress has limited the choice of venue for the particular offense. Conspiracy may be tried in any district in which an overt act in its furtherance is committed, at least when the commission of an overt act is an element of the conspiracy statute at issue. Crimes committed beyond the territorial confines of the United States are usually tried in the district into which the accused is first brought.

Venue: A Brief Look at Federal Law Governing Where a Federal Crime May Be Tried

[Bubba_Leroy]

See also Rule 18, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Unless a statute or these rules permit otherwise, the government must prosecute an offense in a district where the offense was committed.

[BigEdLB]

New Haven to Chappequa. How far?