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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
3. It's a very fine distinction between placing people into high risk investment vehicles and perpetrating a fraud. Were my acquaintence armed with funds to fight the case, he'd be on probation. As they always do, the prosecutors found a weak target they knew they could kill and went for it. I have seen numerous people get away with exactly what this person did because the govt was afraid of losing. The rule you struggled to articulate is, "Try not to commit what could be characterized as a felony if you don't have enough money to appear a possible future entry in the 'L' column for prosecutors."
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This point is something I never appreciated until recently. In addition to the friend I mentioned, I had another friend serve 48 months of a 53 month federal sentence. In both cases, I really got a look at how the Fed operates. Funny, because I use to be a law and order guy. But based on my vicarious experiences, the Feds don't operate much differently than organized crime. Their tactics, while maybe in the grey area of legality, are certainly not moral or have anything to do with justice. They (or at least many of them) are very small people, whose primary cares are "winning," advancing their careers, and making up for their small limp dicks.*
I think Sebby made this point years ago, probably with more flair than I.
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