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Purpose. word is being used as a sort of catchall term. he's only technically right when he saying it's not criminal. legal experts say under u.s. code collusion is federal crime only applicable under antitrust law. that is a collaborative agreement usually secret among roo rivals. basically it's price fixing and bid rigging. but what is a crime is conspiracy. under the federal conspiracy statute a crime is committed when two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the united states or to defraud the united states or any agency thereof in in any manner or any purpose. rob...

Going after both democrats and republicans. until today's firing, he was in the middle of investigations involving the offices of the two most powerful democrats in the state of new york. he was set to try former aides to governor andrew cuomo, who are accused of bribery and bid rigging and in the final of investigations of new york city mayor bill de blasio looking at allegations of pay to play. he headed the southern new york district where trump tower is. so any federal investigation that may involve wiretapping or anything else would likely include his office. remember, anna, this is not u...

And he was greatly feared on wall street. he prosecuted dodss of insider trading and securities fraud cases, including bernie madoff's brother. he was appointed by a democratic president, but was well known for his nonpartisan investigations going after both dems and republicans. in until today's firing he was in the middle of investigations involving offices of two of the most powerful democrats in the state of new york. he was set to try former aides to governor andrew cuomo. who are accused of bribery and bid-rigging and was in the final stations of an investigation in the new york city may...

Department of justice. what could be just the first of many raids across the country took place this week in memphis at an unlikely location, goodwill industries, a multimillion dollar subcontractor with the federal program taking in millions of dollars supposely to hire the severely disabled. raiding offices of goodwill trying to find evidence that they're not. at stake $3.2 billion in tax money doled out by ability within which sources tell cnn is allege to be involved in a nationwide corruption scheme. here's cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin. >> reporter: cnn cameras we...

Complicated to do, especially on television. if you want to say -- try to describe what municipal bond bid rigging is on tv, it's going to take three or four minutes to do and a lot of television reporters just sort of give up at the start. and the complexity of these cases in general precludes any kind of treatment except for the long form kind of treatment that i was very, very lucky be able to do at "rolling stone" magazine. >> even for daily newspapers, you think it's over their heads, so to speak? >> not over their heads, a very difficult fit, also a very tough sell to readers, too, becau...