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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by xiphias2 on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:29AM (#20961466)
The answer is quite simple: jailing people for fiscal fraud is not that popular among lawmakers for some reason.
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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by frenchman99 on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:37AM (#20961515)
Especially in France. Some people are notorious for living in grey areas or unlawfully for their whole life, but never go to jail. And perhaps worse than that, constituents keep voting for them despite.
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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by haissam on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:42AM (#20961541)
But not today! https://www.nouvelobs.com/justice/20190913.OBS18406/condamne...
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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by wott on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:46AM (#20961568)
I mean, they had been almost openly doing it for over 30 years...
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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by zoobab on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:36AM (#20961508)
Law makers prefer to send people to jail for stealing sandwiches:

https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/prison-ferme-pour-vol-de...

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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by baud147258 on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:46AM (#20961566)
He was already supposed to be in jail.
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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by wodenokoto on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:42AM (#20961544)
“For some reason” does not constitute a simple answer. I’m not even sure it’s an answer at all.
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Re:Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe by close04 on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:35AM (#20961987)
I read it as irony/sarcasm. Crimes commonly perpetrated by lawmakers and people of influence are punished very lightly... "for some reason".
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