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Recent reporting and official records show at least one former member of Congress convicted of insider trading in the 21st century: former Rep. Stephen Buyer was convicted and sentenced to 22 months i...
has been federally indicted for treason in the since 2001: , whose 2006 indictment accused him of giving “aid and comfort” to ; he was never tried and was later killed abroad (indictment in 2006) . Mu...
Treason is a narrowly defined federal crime—“levying war against the United States, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort” under 18 U.S.C. § 2381—and historically rare: fewer than ...
The constitutional definition of treason — “levying War” or “adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort” — is tightly constrained by the Constitution and by a small set of landmark cases a...