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The State is enforcing a State law against false accounting. Some possible motives upgrade false accounting, under State law, from a misdemeanor to a felony. One of those is facilitating a federal crime.
There are lots of laws like this, and they don't cause jurisdictional issues - they sometimes cause practical problems because of the need to resolve a technical point of the law of jurisdiction A in the courts of jurisdiction B, but in a federal system like the US that is also something that happens all the time and processes exist to deal with it.
There can even be laws where the predicate crime is a violation of foreign law. I don't know about US examples, but for example the UK has a crime of "Failure to prevent facilitation of foreign tax avoidance offences" where the predicate crime is a violation of foreign revenue law.
In those cases, I understand generally the predicate crime was adjudicated.
It is quite odd for example to say there was a crime in Jurisdiction A that was uncharged. However, Jurisdiction B is going to effectively pretend that crime occurred (not exactly what is happening here but not too far off).
Note that sometimes one forum depends on another forum to interpret that other forum’s law (ie advisory opinion). Federal courts are the appropriate forum for campaign finance law but as an Art III matter federal courts cannot provide that advisory opinion.
Can you provide one case where something like what NYS is doing occurred? If not, can you stop saying this isn’t abnormal. If you can provide the case, I’ll admit to being wrong.
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