Bringing an indictment against a person or organization should be serious business. At the federal level, it is supposed to involve preparing a detailed prosecution memorandum, setting out the facts and law, addressing weaknesses in the case and defenses, and why the case is or is not righteous. Under long-standing DOJ internal rules in the Justice Manual, prosecutors should never seek a grand jury indictment unless they have evidence that would probably be sufficient to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and to sustain that verdict on appeal—a standard meant to avoid subjecting anyone to a fatally weak criminal case (meaning, even if you can meet the low evidentiary threshold of “probable cause” to bring an indictment, you must not do so unless you can meet the far higher “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of a unanimous conviction). And even after all that, the responsible…
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