Wouldn't there also have to be conspiracy charges? If he had Lisi go out and do his dirty work, that's conspiracy, no? Even if he only said, "Do whatever you think you need to to find that video.." he'd be responsible for the beating etc., as I understand it. He doesn't seem like he did very much solo here.
That wouldn't be enough. They would have to show that he knew that "whatever you think you need" included violent means.
For example:
Lets say I'm at work, and there's a big deadline on friday. I've got to leave for a business trip, so I tell one of my employees "This has to be done by friday, no matter what. You do whatever you need to to make sure this gets done." Then head out the door.
If my employee beats other members of the team with a stick to get them to work faster, I can't reasonably charged because that person took illegal actions in my absence.
There is no reasonable expectation on my part that he's going to do illegal things. The whole society works because in general we expect each other to obey the law. I expected him to work late, to ask people to help, to cancel or delay other less important projects etc. I defintely don't expect him to beat people because that's just not part of what happens in an office.
Things would be different if there was an earlier situation where I had left and he had beat everyone. In that case there would be a history that I knew about. So I would have a reasonable expectation that it could happen again.
Or if the employee asked "Anything? What's that mean?" and I said "Give em a little
extra encouragement, and I'm not talking about bonuses." well now it's starting to become plausible that I intended something like the beatings to occur.
So it's not enough for them to have Ford saying "Do whatever you need to get that video back." They would have to show that he was aware of the actions that Sandro was going to take, that he approved of them and was directly involved in the decision to carry them out.