EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Three weeks before trial was scheduled to get under way, defendants Callie Mobley and Jimmie Mobley filed a motion to strike what they called "surplusage" in the indictment charging them with conspiring to steal from the Village of Alorton, Illinois. Callie Mobley was Alorton's Mayor, and Jimmie Mobley (her husband) the Village's Street Superintendent. According to the indictment, for several years Callie received more than double the salary...
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