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There are cases of people going to jail because they donated money to charities claiming to help orphans. Government argument in those cases was that they should have "known better."

Only reason executives are not charged with treason is because they are white Christians not brown Muslims.

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> Only reason executives are not charged with treason is because they are white Christians not brown Muslims

Well, rich white politically-connected Christians. And the charge wouldn't be treason, because the charge is never treason, because of the Constitutional limits on attached to treason and the fact that any punishment can be attached to some other offense without those limits.

>"And the charge wouldn't be treason, because the charge is never treason, because of the Constitutional limits on attached to treason and the fact that any punishment can be attached to some other offense without those limits."

There have been several Americans charged and convicted of treason. Tokyo Rose is a rather well-known one with many references in pop culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/world/asia/28rose.html

https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-1904-7.html

and also Robert Henry Best who served a life sentence and died in prison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Best

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