11.   She noted that in another criminal conspiracy law enacted the same year, Congress explicitly required the Government to prove an overt act as part of the conspiracy.

12.   So illegally paying a nanny off the books becomes a more overt act, with penalties for fraud.

13.   The case involves whether the statute compels the government to show an overt act in order to prove that a conspiracy exists.

14.   The Constitution says that a conviction of treason requires a confession in open court or testimony from two witnesses to the same overt act.

15.   The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that, under its precedent, the Government must prove at trial that a defendant has committed such an overt act.

16.   The indictment did not refer to any overt act and the defendant, Reshat Shabani, asked the trial judge to dismiss the indictment for that reason.

17.   The original indictment listed nine overt acts for McVeigh in that period.

18.   This overt act of partisanship occurred a couple of years before Bill met Monica, ultimately the flashpoint around which the media storm would erupt.

19.   It was the first overt act here against the international groups since the Taliban seized control of this northern city on Saturday.

20.   We are way past one overt act.