Try reading what I wrote. I didn't imply Eric was along voluntarily ......
I managed to read it all right; it was understanding it that was the problem. If you weren't implying that Eric acted voluntarily then the inference must be that, if Eric went along with the scheme at all, he did so involuntarily. But what on earth does that mean? Eric had served a lien on his own house some time ago as a result of which the government backed away from its claim so Eric knew very well from his own previous experience the effect of a lien notice. So in what possible scenario could it be alleged that he might have served the liens involuntarily?
......or knowingly.
How could Eric serve a lien notice unknowingly using his father's signature?
And Jo had a choice, she could have and should have told him NO!!!
Perhaps you underestimate the working of the fundamentalist religious mind, especially one married to an arrogant male dunderhead. A friend of Jo's wrote:
At her sentencing hearing John a CSE employee stood up with his Bible and read Ephesians 5;22 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” John explained that this verse was the foundation of a Christian woman’s mind, that this verse determined how Jo made decisions in life because she based her life on the Word of God and the Bible tells her to submit. She didn’t do what she did to break the law; she did it to obey the Lord by obeying her husband.
In any event, I don't think that it has ever been proved that Jo was aware of the law relating to structuring. Jo's uncross-examined evidence was that she did not know of the offence although I would have to agree that the circumstantial evidence is that, at best, she acted extremely naively.