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Re:How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money by crb002 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:49PM (#15973080)
More lucrative to go civil; get default treble fraud damages with a 20% withholding on all their future income that survives bankruptcy because of the fraud. But then IANAL.
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Re:How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money by chii on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:42PM (#15975348)
but going civil requires your own lawyers, while a criminal fraud case is initiated by the state prosecutor. if you can't afford a lawyer...
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