Re:Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
by fragmede on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:14AM
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For $96 million, I would be a flight risk.
Re:Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
by hedvig23 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:45AM
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>Because if you allow it, you'll have hundreds of these everyday. The law is there to "scare" others from doing it not punish the perpetrator. On the other hand, you don't have hundreds of fintech startups raising millions >every day.
Surely the scale of harm caused is the metric here, and not the frequency of potential crimes individually committed
Re:Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
by chefandy on Sunday November 24, 2024 @12:20PM
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Sentencing? Who’s been charged? The article implied that regulatory bodies haven’t even raised an eyebrow— the parties are in mediation and synapse said they don’t even have enough money to audit their books, and are just sort of shrugging their shoulders about it. And doesn’t white collar crime need to be discouraged too? Probably even more so considering the scale of the impact? Hundreds of millions of dollars, uninsured. Maybe if the cops went around major metropolitan business districts frisking every middle aged person in upscale business casual attire with an expensive haircut to search for wire transfer receipts because they ‘met the description’ then extremely consequential white collar crime would be less frequent than it is.
Because if you allow it, you'll have hundreds of these everyday. The law is there to "scare" others from doing it not punish the perpetrator. On the other hand, you don't have hundreds of fintech startups raising millions every day.
It makes no sense to throw someone in prison in this case unless they are a flight risk until their sentencing is complete.