FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms | Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison::undefined

  • Bernie Ecclestoned
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    9 months ago

    165 years for white collar crime, no fucking chance

    They only made $322k, that’s nothing.

    What did the Enron guys get?

  • @gravitas_deficiency
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    589 months ago

    HEY! You stole money from the people who have lots of money! THAT’S MORE ILLEGAL THAN ALL THE OTHER STUFF!

    • TwoGems
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      429 months ago

      I like the part where it’s like a zillion times more illegal than trying to overthrow democracy. The USA “justice system” is a joke.

      • @[email protected]
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        -169 months ago

        Most of the January 6th people seemed to get appropriate sentences for their involvement.

            • ram
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              9 months ago

              Welcome to Lemmy, I see you’re new. You must be unfamiliar with how we treat capitalists and right wing scum here.

                • @Jax
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                  -129 months ago

                  No no, it’s different because white people are bad.

                  Wait did I say the quiet part out loud?

                • @[email protected]
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                  09 months ago

                  Nobody should support or advocate for state sponsored violence and execution. Ever.

                  “The United States shouldn’t have entered WWII or sponsored violence through the lend-lease program that literally bankrolled the Allied war effort”

                  —You

  • @[email protected]
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    349 months ago

    Ironically, Viggiano and his team from the University of Tampa won a 2018 ethics competition

    Best part of the article.

  • @[email protected]
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    339 months ago

    Salamone tried to keep the lion’s share for himself and undid them all by recording the conversations. Conspiracies sure would be a lot more popular if everyone involved wasn’t a scumbag.

    • the dopamine fiend
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      109 months ago

      I like what Robert Anton Wilson had to say about conspiracies and their life cycles:

      “[A]s far as I’ve been able to discover in all my years of being involved, more or less unwillingly, in this field, I cannot find any proof of any conspiracy that really existed, was really brought into court and convicted, that lasted more than ten years before everybody double-crossed everybody else and the conspiracy fell apart.”

      • @[email protected]
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        99 months ago

        In fairness, there has to be some survivorship bias here: if the members of a conspiracy don’t double-cross each other and are competent enough not to expose themselves, it’s a lot less likely they’d ever get brought into court in the first place.

        • the dopamine fiend
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          19 months ago

          Agreed, and I suppose it’s the ones we don’t hear about that are the real bad ones.

  • @[email protected]
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    339 months ago

    Points for creativity, I guess? I’m pretty sure a Goldman Sachs analyst can figure out how to do it properly, though…