Comment by Tangurena2

2 hours ago

> But isn’t wire fraud harder to prove than leaking classified facts?

No. From the Justice Department's own criminal resource manual:

> the four essential elements of the crime of wire fraud are:

> (1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another out of money;

> (2) that the defendant did so with the intent to defraud;

> (3) that it was reasonably foreseeable that interstate wire communications would be used; and

> (4) that interstate wire communications were in fact used

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

Generally, to be successfully prosecuted for a crime, the prosecutor has to show that each and every "element" of the crime has to have happened. On the above page, there were 3 different court precedents who ruled what elements that the prosecutor needed to prove were in those cases.