| ThurgreedMarshall |
01-03-2006 02:03 PM |
Got on board a west-bound seven, forty seven.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Bernie Ebbers deserves five years - not 25. His was a clearly political and very "zero tolerance" minded sentence. Did he not deserve a downward departure for all the money he made for people in WorldCom's run up? Why wasn't that cash netted against the amount on which his sentence was based? Seems equitable, no? I lost money because of people like Bernie, but I knew those investments were risky. I could bark about how Gary Winnick should go to jail, but in the end, I have no one to blame but myself.
Whatever happened to assumption of risk?
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You are insane.
Assumption of risk? I'm not assuming the risk that the people running the companies in which I have stock are out-and-out criminals. I'm assuming the risk that they're stupid or incompetent, but that's enough, thank you very much.
All those motherfuckers should do hard time in a regular jail. You want to reduce corporate crime (yez, this is a tangent), do away with country club jails altogether. If you steal a purse with $50 in it, you go to a fuck-me-up-the-ass prison. If you steal $10,000,000, you go to a jail with no walls? That's some bullshit.
TM
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