What is a conspiracy?
A conspiracy is any two people that you can throw one blanket over. That’s a conspiracy. … If you and I get drunk sitting in a bar, and we say something to the effect, “Why don’t we go get us some cocaine and sell it and make a lot of money,” that is a conspiracy. We have made an agreement. We don’t have to go out and do anything. All we have to do is make the agreement. … Once we’ve made the agreement, we have committed a heinous criminal offense. We could be sitting there, and 30 minutes later say, “Well, no, it’s a bad idea.” … We’ve still committed a criminal offense. You get jail for that? Certainly. The essence of most federal criminal cases is the conspiracy count. … Conspiracy means that if you were in the same room at any given time in your life with somebody that did something criminal, then you’re part of that conspiracy. Whether you knew it or not? The law is you have to have knowledge of it and you have to intend to join a conspiracy, but that’s so much horse feath
