to Joseph:
The criminal justice system does not use significantly lower thresholds of evidence. The evidentiary standard for any criminal offense is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” And we are not talking here about neemanus of ladies or single witnesses; this is about documents that prove income and documents that prove welfare applications. Criminal intent is not an element of the offense here, so it doesn’t matter if the accused knew that what they were doing was illegal. , The crime is simply whenever someone:
1. Made “x” amount of money per year, and
2. Was on welfare because said that income was “y”
Of course, they may have evidence to defend themselves; that is what a court proceeding will determine. But it is awfully silly to think that the gov’t would waste their time ad money going after people that they don’t have a good chance of convicting.