SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by prolikewh0a on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:55PM (#18090635)

Billionaires don't go to jail.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by Animats on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:09PM (#18090686)

Leona Helmsley, Federal Prisoner #15113-054.

Michael Milken.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by cheeze on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:52AM (#18091174)

> Although having initially received a sentence of sixteen years, she was required to serve only nineteen months in prison and two months under house arrest.

> Milken was sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $600 million, and permanently barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission. His sentence was later reduced to two years for cooperating with testimony against his former colleagues and for good behavior

How common is that for the common person? I'm not arguing that it isn't, I'm just not sure.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by Razengan on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:42AM (#18091147)

Unless they piss off other billionaires?

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by erikb on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:36AM (#18091640)

or the government

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by UpshotKnothole on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:54AM (#18099723)

Billionaires don't go to jail.

How many billionaires publically break the law in the way that Musk did, and put themselves in the position to risk jail? How many billionaires are there to begin with?

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