Conspiracy• Who would you arrest, and for what crime?Who would you arrest, and for what crime?• Who would be prosecuted and convicted?Who would be prosecuted and convicted?

TIBORTIBOR KINGKING TODASTODASSCHMIDTSCHMIDT

RUSHRUSH LUFFLUFFRUPERTRUPERT TOTHTOTH

Conspiracy Defined In The United States

“An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.”

1] Last September this banker was kidnapped for ransom. The following events occurred in connection with this kidnapping:

2] On September 9th, LAZLO TOTH...

3] HANS LUFF...

4] PETER SCHMIDT...

5] …and NICK TODAS, discussed their need to obtain...

6] $50,000 in cash to purchase a restaurant. They discussed various legal possibilities to obtain this money.

7] The next day, September 10th, TOTH, SCHMIDT, and LUFF met again and discussed doing various crimes to obtain the cash for purchasing the restaurant. They decided to kidnap a banker for $50,000, in ransom.

8] Later that day, SCHMIDT and TOTH questioned a close friend of TOTH’s,...

9] ...JIM RUPERT, about the name and work hours of a banker who lived next to RUPERT. RUPERT identified...

10] HOWARD STARKS as the banker.

11] On September 11th, SCHMIDT and LUFF hired GEORGE KING, a private investigator, to follow the banker, STARKS.

12] On September 12th, LUFF and his girlfriend, ANN TIBOR, rent a small van for a week, in her name...

13] and gave the van to him. He told her he needed it for his work.

14] On September 17th, SCHMIDT asked RUPERT to use his house so that SCHMIDT could observe the banker coming and going from the banker’s residence.

15] RUPERT asked what was going on and was told that…

16] ...SCHMIDT intended to kidnap the banker.

17] RUPERT told SCHMIDT that SCHMIDT could only use his house to observe the banker.

18] The next day, September 18th, SCHMIDT purchased two stolen handguns from...

19] ...DAVID RUSH, a criminal associate of SCHMIDT’S.

20] On September 19th, LUFF, TOTH, TODAS, and SCHMIDT, met again to discuss the purchase of a restaurant.

21] TOTH told TODAS that they would soon have $50,000 to purchase the restaurant.

22] Later that day, GEORGE KING, the private investigator, reported to LUFF...

23] …that the banker stays late at work on Tuesday and Thursday and that he drives a red BMW.

24] Later that day, LUFF and SCHMIDT were discussing their kidnapping plan when LUFF’S girlfriend,...

25] ...ANN TIBOR, overheard some of the details of the kidnapping.

26] LUFF asked TIBOR to assist them by driving the rented van to the vicinity of the bank...

27] …on the day of the kidnapping. TIBOR agreed.

28] On the morning of September 20th, SCHMIDT used the inside of RUPERT’S house...

29] …to observe the banker, STARKS, as he left his house. RUPERT was not at home.

30] SCHMIDT used RUPERT’S phone to report to LUFF that the banker was driving his red BMW.

31] At noon that day, ANN TIBOR called LUFF...

32] …and said that she had returned the rental van to the rental agency and that she would not assist them.

33] At 6:30, LUFF and SCHMIDT successfully kidnapped STARKS as he left the bank.

34] SCHMIDT and LUFF negotiated with bank officials, who paid $50,000 in cash for the release of STARKS.

35] STARKS was released soon thereafter.

36] On September 22nd, SCHMIDT, TOTH, and LUFF met with NICK TODAS...

37] …and gave him a $50,000 check to purchase the restaurant.

TIBORTIBOR KINGKING TODASTODASSCHMIDTSCHMIDT

RUSHRUSH LUFFLUFFRUPERTRUPERT TOTHTOTH??

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