intent. basically to make it in the second degree, where it would just be a misdemeanor, you would need to convince a jury that all the efforts that occurred while he had prospects of being president or even the fact that he wouldn't want people to know either way, were actually accidental and unintentional. the intent can be proven just with the utility, what he was paying for and why. the best case scenario is that it was an accident and they all just happened to randomly throw money in a way that aligned the way it did. and that would mean it's still a crime, just a misdemeanor.
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