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Why is blackmail (where it pertains to knowledge of non-illegal acts) illegal? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Because the moment you get money from it, you become complicit in the act. Also, even failure to report a crime is known as misprision of a felony and can also result in convictions, it's just much harder to prove. You can feign ignorance, but the moment you begin to threaten blackmail, it is clear that you knew, you are leaving a money trail, and that bribe proves you were a party to a crime. There are four parties to a crime:

Principals in the first degree committed the crime.
Principals in the second degree were present at the crime scene and assisted in the crime’s commission.
Accessories before the fact were not present at the crime scene, but assisted in preparing for the crime’s commission.
Accessories after the fact helped a party to the crime avoid detection and escape prosecution or conviction.

This is Google's law, so it's mostly what I've scrounged up on Google and is heavily based on law in the US. In different countries and even states the law can be different.