• @phdepressed
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    181 month ago

    For this to be criminal it’d probably require intent to be proven which is difficult without a “smoking gun” of an email being like “do this to avoid taxes or be fired”- CEO. For it just to be civil fines is a lot simpler to show. Their inevitable appeal and potential reduction in fine is a different issue.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 month ago

        the poor are not, according to the american criminal system; ‘people’. mutually exclusive categories.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 month ago

      Of course they have intent. That’s not an issue at all. They’re trying to avoid taxes, which is in itself legal, and they aren’t denying that. Their theory is that the IRS is doing the math wrong.

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      41 month ago

      It almost sounds like you’re saying corporations are not people. Don’t let the conservatives hear you say that.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      16 billion dollars of money laundering isn’t an “honest mistake”…. criminal intent abounds

      • @phdepressed
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        21 month ago

        Sure but that’s a lot harder to prove.