What Is Federal Drug Conspiracy? Andrew Russek from Combs Waterkotte explains what turns a federal drug charge into a federal drug conspiracy charge
Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: And when does it become a conspiracy? I mean, what is a federal drug conspiracy?
Andrew Russek: A conspiracy is that you are doing the conduct with the intent to commit the crime. So you don’t even actually have to finish the crime.
A lot of times, you’ll see conspiracy– there’s an agent involved, and there’s no drugs, and it’s you and another individual making all the means and efforts to purchase drugs or to ship drugs. But inherently, it’s multiple people working together to commit a crime. Very often, it’s drug trafficking or drug distribution.
So again, we’ll see these multi-defendant cases: There’s one from another state who’s sending the drugs, one who’s packaging them, one who’s moving the money, one who’s putting them on the street, and one who’s facilitating it all.
They can all be put together on one indictment: Conspiracy. And then they can have their individual crimes for their individual roles they played.
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