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Re:Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before Whit... by joe_the_user on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:18AM (#16508031)
Icahn, unlike Stewart, is a professional stock speculator. There's every reason to think a speculator makes their money "running their connections".

Moreover, if anything, Stewart's manifestly unfair and abusive case shows prosecutors choose their examples based not on how dirty the target is but rather how convenient they are. Those who go down, don't go down based on how much they break or skirt the law but based on their connections to power failing.

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Re:Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before Whit... by pasbesoin on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:35AM (#16508076)
I really dislike this aspect of our system, where participants (e.g. prosecutors) have so much motivation to build a personal career, over purpose to serve justice evenly, or sometimes even at all.
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