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Fuck You I QuitWild 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.
Voron@fuckyouiquit Yup but steal 500 bucks from a gas station and to prison & hard time with you
Carrion Sam@fuckyouiquit tf you mean only 15 years?
@CaffeineSam that we know of
@fuckyouiquit that we can prove of
Matt 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.
@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?
@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.
Dan Hoover@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..
Ginsu@fuckyouiquit Yeah, petty crimes have mandatory minimums, but the serious crimes have statutory maximums, because the entire point of the law is to protect the fucking bourgeoisie.
SunnySideUp@fuckyouiquit Justice in America is a multi tiered system. People who have money serve no real time. Steal a billion but fined a million. 1000 to 1 return on investment. Brilliant, if you’re an amoral crook.