Fuck You I QuitDec 7, 2022
Wild that a billionaire’s companies committed fraud for 15 years, found guilty on all counts, and they face a max fine of $1.61 million for their crimes. No jail time. Zero criminal charges. That’s not justice, that’s a payment processing fee. Cost of doing business in America.
Show threadMatt Hiller

@fuckyouiquit coverage that I'm seeing are that these are criminal charges to the corporation, felonies, and the finding on all of them was guilty. Trouble is you can't imprison a corporation. Yeah the fines are lower than I'd like to see.

Let's not sleep on Tish James' civil suit to claw back $250 mil in tax underpayment tho.

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Show threadFuck You I QuitDec 7, 2022
@hillernyc correct. But you should be able to imprison the people at said corporation who made the illegal decisions. Why is that not also a thing?
Show threadMatt HillerDec 7, 2022
@fuckyouiquit Weisselberg and the other Trump org insider exec were charged individually, but were let off with relatively light sentences in exchange for giving evidence in this case. (Weisselberg's sentence seems to be 5 months imprisonment, 5 years probation.) Maybe this was the right call? I'm not a prosecutor, just sorta armchair quarterbacking at this point.
Show threadDan HooverDec 7, 2022
@fuckyouiquit @hillernyc Exactly. If corporations are treated as persons under law, then the living breathing persons on the boards of those corporations should bear the full consequences of their company's crimes, as if they were committed personally..