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Re:Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them by tomhoward on Saturday October 05, 2019 @01:55AM (#21164047)
The outcome is what matters in this case, far more than scruples. Presuming she wants to minimise her penalty, she will pay whatever it costs to make that happen.

If she's not paying, it must surely be because she's broke, rather than out of some perverse thrill of screwing people over and also getting a more severe penalty.

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Re:Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them by nordsieck on Saturday October 05, 2019 @02:00AM (#21164058)
> If she's not paying, it must surely be because she's broke, rather than out of some perverse thrill of screwing people over and also getting a more severe penalty.

Precisely. The "rational" time to screw the lawyers is once the trial is over, not before.

* Not actually rational because life is a multi-round game.

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