Scanning the charges, he's going to jail. Not because reserving a conference is illegal, but when you have 5,000 charges and you can pick the jury you want, you can convict anybody of anything:

That's not really true. Prosecutors have enormous ability to get indictments of almost anybody of anything (though it's not unlimited). But you still need to be able to prove up your case in order to get a criminal conviction, particularly since defendants have the right to appeal those convictions.

Reserving a conference room isn't illegal. Neither is buying a car, by way of example. But if you have a gang of people that conspire to rob a bank, and one of those people's role in the conspiracy is to buy a cheap and quick getaway car, then buying the getaway car is an overt act in favor of the conspiracy. Even if the gang gets busted before they actually do the bank job, the crime lies in conspiring to rob the bank, and buying the car is an overt act that advances the conspiracy even though that act in most other contexts would be completely innocent.

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