Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by scott_s on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:27PM
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You sincerely think that the prosecutors in the cases mentioned in the article purposefully made the case hard for the jury to understand, for the explicit purpose of losing the case?
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by coldtea on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:18PM
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No, for the explicit purpose of making some good money off the table.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by scott_s on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:24PM
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I don't follow. How are the prosecutors making money by losing a case that they decided to prosecute?
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by Kliment on Thursday October 22, 2015 @04:10AM
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I'm not coldtea but the implication appears to be that they are being bribed
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by coldtea on Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:07AM
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Yes. Don't know about those specific cases but I know places where this happens a lot, and especially when it comes to white collar crime, but also mafia-with-a-legit-front kind of affairs.
Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
by coldtea on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:50PM
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>This is a conversational dead-end because there is both no evidence for it in this case, and no way to disprove it.
Doesn't that make it a conversational endless road?
Being able to prove or disprove it would make it a dead-end, getting the conversation to stop :-)