# The Department of Justice's bringing charges against David Morens caused his guilty plea to conceal federal records…
*Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/claim/the-department-of-justices-bringing-charges-against-david-morens-caused--d43898d9
*Numbers under lens:* **Evidence-weighted** (`log-odds@1`)
*Machine twins:* https://truthscore.com/claim/the-department-of-justices-bringing-charges-against-david-morens-caused--d43898d9.md · JSON at https://truthscore.com/api/v1
The Department of Justice's bringing charges against David Morens caused his guilty plea to conceal federal records related to COVID-19 research.

## How it was derived

Nobody asserted this. Scheme **cause-effect** v1, depth 1.

**Premises**

- [The Department of Justice brought charges against David Morens in April.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1730c251)
- [David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to conceal federal records related to COVID-19 research.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6c497a09)

**Critical questions**

- [open] [Could the outcome have arisen from another cause?](https://truthscore.com/claim/5533937f)
- [open] [Is the causal generalisation itself well supported?](https://truthscore.com/claim/6bcbdd6b)
- [open] [Did the outcome actually follow the event in time?](https://truthscore.com/claim/7bf8cbc3)