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Now @stuartb@stuartb.uk
@stuartb@social.teamb.space · Aug 08
@nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social one thing to note here, which only reinforces the whole point.
The 40 months the CRO received is apparently "slightly less" than the 6 years the prosecution asked for.
6 years is 72 months.
That's not "slightly less" than 6 years.
That slightly more than 3 years.
3 years snd 4 months, to be precise.
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Sean Lynch
@SeanPLynch@mastodon.social · Aug 08
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@stuartb@social.teamb.space @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
Alternatively, if we took a 15 year's sentence to be the standard for stealing $100, then the executive who stole $3B should get a 30,000,000 year sentence.
Yeah, a 30 million year sentence would be the executive being treated the same as the homeless man.
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Now @stuartb@stuartb.uk
@stuartb@social.teamb.space · Aug 09
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@SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social and lets not forget that the homeless man handed himself in, and showed remorse for his actions, while the CEO didn't...
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Martin Owens 
@doctormo@floss.social · Aug 09
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@stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
I smell something else in that second newsicle. A judge that housed a man for 15 years in an extremely expensive state run housing program. 😉
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Space Burger Steve 🌌🍔🤪
@Space_Burger_Steve@mstdn.ca · Aug 09
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@doctormo@floss.social @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social Did you know that the USA allows forced, unpaid labour for prisoners, and that for profit prisons make money selling prison labour like to-order slavery? I didn't know for a long time.
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jincy quones
@jincyquones@mast.shitpostbot.com · Aug 09
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@doctormo@floss.social @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social In Louisiana, slavery is legal as punishment for a crime.
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Bill
@w_b@mastodon.world · Aug 09
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@doctormo@floss.social @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
As opposed to the Club Fed the CEO will visit.
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suzune
@nakal@mastodon.social · Aug 09
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@SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @stuartb@social.teamb.space @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social I'd prefer that the other guy gets his 3.5 seconds sentence.
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Space Burger Steve 🌌🍔🤪
@Space_Burger_Steve@mstdn.ca · Aug 09
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social I can't read the snopes article, because snopes doesn't know the difference between a tracking blocker and an ad blocker.
I can read this article from Cornell though, and it does more to verify than invalidate this story.
https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/jlpp/2011/11/17/a-tale-of-two-criminals/
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Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
@blotosmetek@circumstances.run · Aug 09
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@Space_Burger_Steve@mstdn.ca @failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social Snopes marks the story as true. However, it also explains Allen's sentence:
Mitigating factors in Allen's sentencing were the fact that the fraud was already underway when he became CEO of TBW in 2003, that his crime was a non-violent one, and that Allen was one of six persons who received credit on their sentences for cooperating with investigators and testifying against Farkas, the mastermind of the fraud scheme. (Farkas himself was sentenced to thirty years in prison.)
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Goose of Dubious Value
@sahqon@beige.party · Aug 09
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social CEOs kill people in the millions by a single deal and cause other people to resort to violence for 100 dollars. Just not with a gun, personally.
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Face Thumb
@chrisp@cyberplace.social · Aug 09
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social Yes, the homeless guy robbed a bank which probably caused trauma and emotional stress for the people involved. Was it more than $3 billion worth of stress? If not then it should have been less than the white collar criminal's sentence. Or the white collar criminal's sentence should have been increased to 15 years.
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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
@vnikolov@ieji.de · Aug 09
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The mastermind white collar criminal was sentenced to 30 (thirty) years.
@chrisp@cyberplace.social @failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
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ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)
@chiraag@mastodon.online · Aug 09
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social Not really...
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ridicol 🍉🇵🇸 🏳️🌈💚
@ridicol@mastodon.social · Aug 08
@nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social similar to the Wall Street mob that created the GFC.
Did anybody end in jail? Only an ego-filled french junior trader.
"The man who stole the world". Great watch
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DavidM_yeg
@DavidM_yeg@beige.party · Aug 09
@stuartb@social.teamb.space @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
“We were able to confirm Brown pleaded guilty to first degree robbery on 14 January 2009 and was sentenced to 15 years hard labor without the possibility of probation, parole or suspension of sentence, according to the Caddo Parish court clerk's office.”
The difference is even more egregious than the length of the sentence: the homeless man was sentenced to 15 yrs slavery.
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Just Bob
@justbob@kolektiva.social · Aug 08
@nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social grr no text in your post to get in and see comments ...
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Bill
@w_b@mastodon.world · Aug 09
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@justbob@kolektiva.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
Which client are you using? In Pachli, and possibly others, click to the left of the image.
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Just Bob
@justbob@kolektiva.social · Aug 09
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@w_b@mastodon.world @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social Tusky in 🤢 android... but looking into that one. Thanks for the tip.😉
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Henrik Pauli
@phl@mastodon.social · Aug 09
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@justbob@kolektiva.social @w_b@mastodon.world @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social Yeah works like that in Tusky too - it's much harder to find the sliver of empty space to click on on the web client
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sOlOw-NH
@solownh@mstdn.party · Aug 08
@nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
Felonious rascist swindler... elected POTUS...