Federal prosecutors are considering whether to charge him with a hate crime.

Inasmuch as hate speech involves incitement of imminent violence, it may be made criminal, even in the United States, where freedom of expression enjoys particularly strong legal protection.

Despite the fact that the multidimensional impact of corruption is widely recognized, efforts to measure its actual costs are methodologically difficult because of a number of factors, including, in particular, discrepancies in understanding and interpreting the term corruption , as well as in how it is criminalized.