Bribery, greed: All for a little bit of Ivy League

I think i asked you this before.

What did you think of the two week jail terms for the plea bargainers?

 

No it was not just a civil fraud.

 

“It’s so broad that it’s absurd”; what is “public loitering”? And how many “rich” people get charged with that? This is not the example to use about over charging and prosecutors run amok.

 

I doubt a person who wasn't a "nice wealthy white lady" would have gotten such a sweet deal.

Gonna say, "Fuck them." I'll cop to it being personal bias on my part after spending a chunk of my life trying to help people get life necessities.

I'll cop to it that my prejudice is informed by a conversation I had this morning with a friend living in a condo bought for them by family, driving a car bought by family and drawing disability for anixiety and depression because they don't want to touch their trust fund. This person complained to me they felt achy all over and the tornado siren went off and they thought there was a war and Trump is meeeeeeean and how sad is that. All I could think of were the clients who drag their own hurting asses to work at Walmart and Aldi and who pretend it's okay to go to bed hungry and let their DM and COPD go untreated because they can't afford to see a doctor. Meanwhile, this clueless person who never uttered a peep about kids in cages or dead Kurds is weepy because a tornado siren woke them up and it's Trump's fault they're scared.

So yeah, I know it's bad law and this makes me a bad person, but fuck anyone who cannot tell the difference between being inconvenienced and being grieviously injured. That would include Felicity F. Huffman and Lori F. Loughlin and their ridiculous crotchfruit.

 

Crotchfruit. Stealing the shit out of that.

 

Ridiculous Crotchfruit is a great self-titled album and first single. Or maybe a deep cut on a Pussy Riot album.

Either way, it’s today’s favorite phrase.

 

Is this another prong of the argument 'they' do it to poor people so it's okay that 'they' do it to rich people?

Anyways, as Ragu pointed out in response to another example, public loitering involves the cops and the college scandal is about prosecutors. Yes, both are examples of hassling people, but the comparison ends there.

People have some concept of public loitering, even if cops will selectively enforce it as a pretext to a search. The prosecutor in Boston is poring over laws trying to find something to hang on these people after he has already charged them for their actions. It's not a pretext to finding something else criminal. It's punishment for wanting to go trial.

And the law is absurdly broad. The inclusion of organizations receiving $1oK from the federal government creates a completely separate class of people or entities covered by the law other than government bodies or officials. As I pointed out before, the bribe doesn't even need to relate to the government function of the organization receiving the money.

 

OK, let's say it's civil fraud.

What is the proper fine that would send the proper message to a couple worth $100 million?

 

So the laws are on the books. Certain people just don't like the way they are enforced.

Okay.

 

Make them sell their children