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That's just poor wording. What it means is "Everything described as a fact in the complaint should be treated as an allegation."

Criminal complaints are written as if everything in them is a true fact, unlike, say, newspaper articles that use phrases like "the alleged thief."

For example, a newspaper article about this complaint would say things like "The FBI's criminal complaint alleges that..." - even though the complaint itself states it as a fact.



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