Re:The brazenness of the LIBOR scam
by djrogers on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:35PM
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What would your proposed punishment be for someone who directly scams millions of dollars from elderly retired people, leaving them with nothing? A fine? Great - he’s been able to play with the pensioners cash for years before being caught, now he has to give some of it back?
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Re:The brazenness of the LIBOR scam
by qwerty456127 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:46PM
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Take all the millions (and more) from them leaving them only the amount of money necessary for humble survival (a cheap room rental and mediocre meals) and give the money back to the victims.
What makes you think there would be more money than what the scammer took? You think scammers are likely to reinvest their earnings and make more than what they spend? Doubt it.
This is no punishment at all.
Re:The brazenness of the LIBOR scam
by qwerty456127 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:14PM
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Ok, let's spend $33000 more on them every ear just to torture them by keeping them in the horrible conditions of a prison for the sweet sense of revenge...
> What makes you think there would be more money than what the scammer took?
They probably had something before they have committed the scam and they also might have been getting their fancy salary during the scam too...