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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by jessaustin on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:12PM (#16943911)
Only fairly rich people can do this. They know the proper people to ask, to get the proper phone number for the proper "private investigator" who continuously bribes the proper FBI agents in the proper field offices and the proper assistant prosecutors in the proper districts. Lots of money changes hands, the proper evidence is entrapped or manufactured, and then the poor unconnected schlub who pissed off the wrong rich dude is carted off to federal PMITAP. Typically the rich dude then has the requisite noblesse oblige to let it go after simply ruining a family. However, in some cases he's a real asshole, and objects to Google linking to the poor schlub's complaints about his mistreatment...

I dare you to call the FBI the next time you have a business disagreement. You won't even get past the phone bank.

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:36PM (#16945257)
> I dare you to call the FBI the next time you have a business disagreement

I have a friend of humble means who, in response to an incident, filed a police report, sent copies to the public e-mail addresses of our state's responsible regulators and then packaged that correspondence and sent it to a field office's public mailing address. The response was quick, courteous and effective.

You're launching baseless conjecture.

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by jessaustin on Sunday April 29, 2018 @12:19PM (#16952633)
How many years in federal PMITAP did your humble friend's business rival get?
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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by khalilravanna on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:03PM (#16944306)
Do you have some references for this conjecture? This all sounds very "tinfoil hat" for me. Like, sure, what you suggest is totally plausible-- but is it not a stretch to just assume this is a commonplace thing?
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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by jessaustin on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:15PM (#16944386)
I personally know people to whom something like this has happened. No I won't share their stories here. Every time the general public learns more about FBI, it's always more sordid and awful. Remember this is the house that J. Edgar Hoover built. Those who care to notice, have received notice.

Mostly, though, search your recollection: have you ever heard of anyone who isn't really wealthy doing what Ervine is reported to have done?

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