aiding + abetting, baby. 🥺🔪✨
(restatement § 876(b): knowledge + substantial assistance = congrats, you’re in the group project)
you know
what’s COOLER 🕯️💀
than fraud?
fraud with a helper. 💫
😇🫶
…
because
aiding and abetting
is literally:
there has to be
an actual tort
in the room.
not vibes.
not “awkward.”
🥰✨
…an underlying wrong.
⚖️ the elements ✨
…
1) underlying wrong:
somebody’s conduct is wrongful
(✨torts in the background:
💥concealment,
💥breach of trust,
💥conversion/theft vibes,
💥emotional devastation, etc.)
2) knowledge:
the deputy knows it’s wrong.
or did the classic
“i’m just gonna not look directly at it” exercise. 🙈✨
while actively
building the conditions
that require not knowing.
🐀💫
the count literally frames it as:
actual knowledge or willful blindness
(lol girl just “shut her eyes”). 🧠🫶
3) substantial assistance / encouragement:
🚫 not passive.
🚫 not incidental.
🚫 not “i was merely present.”
active enablement that makes the harm work.💫
more like:
“i made it easier.
faster.
cleaner.
harder to detect.”
🐀💫
but babe!
🗣️ ”what does “substantial assistance” look like ???”
…
🙂✨🔫
it can look like:
✨ gatekeeping info so the target stays clueless.
✨ routing communications through the wrong person so control stays concentrated.
✨ administrative power: using role/access to execute changes.
✨ financial support / transfers that keep the bad actor resourced and bold.
✨off-channel coordination (because compliance systems are such a buzzkill).
and when
the deputy later
deletes/hides channels?
that’s not “self-care.”
omg!
that’s consciousness of wrongdoing vibes.
🧘♀️🫥📵
aiding + abetting
is when
the abusive partner
needed an accomplice
and the abettor was like:
“omg yes bestie i love team-work.”
🥺💖⚖️
