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Re:Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks by mikeash on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:45PM (#16564938)
Are you implying that being bankrupted is worse than going to prison?
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Re:Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks by twblalock on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:43PM (#16565342)
I'd bet that many rich people would rather spend 4 years in prison than lose all of their assets, especially if the prison is one of those minimum-security summer camps the white collar criminals normally end up in.
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Re:Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks by onetimemanytime on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:25PM (#16565844)
>>Are you implying that being bankrupted is worse than going to prison?

He's getting both. And he's losing everything: money, status, possibly family, ability to get another decent job... So he might rather do 10 years in jail but return to what it had before.

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Re:Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks by rhizome on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:57PM (#16564982)
If that's the rubric, poor people should never be incarcerated.
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