hamper653

Or are they?

Indeed.

Not every word in a conversation needs to be useful.

Every person on the planet is related to twins.

The walls are thick, and no one can access the front door of an apartment without going through that of the building first. I still prefer a house though, with a thick hedge around the lawn isolating you from the world. The real privacy downside with apartments is the windows, as they might be facing other apartments or the street.

There can’t be evidence if there is neither a crime nor an investigation.

> yards, large homes, greater privacy than apartments provide

Really? You don’t even have hedges around your yards.

But did they? Was there an actual investigation going on?

> At this point, people should buy a burner phone when going to/from the US.

At this point? This has been standard practice for a while now.

> He was charged for destroying evidence, not refusing a search

Evidence with regard to which investigation?

It has been standard practice for some time now in some European companies.

> if anything

That’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it? If there was no suspicion whatsoever, hence no investigation, then he couldn’t possibly obstruct it.

> destruction of records in federal investigations

There was a federal investigation going on?

> even if they had no reason for suspicion

Are you sure about that?

> knowingly

Did he know he was suspected of something? Was he suspected of something?