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any chance he doesn't end up in prison, though? I might be naive, but I'm under the impression that the book doesn't get thrown at white-collar criminals in th

• pc86 11y ago
  I don't know any of the specifics of the case and IANAL so I couldn't say. My lay understanding is that this is a pretty straight-forward case and he will see the inside of a jail cell. Personally, I think that impression (which is popular) is largely because A) white-collar criminals can typically afford better representation than someone e.g. accused of armed robbery; B) we're much more likely to hear about someone who embezzled $30 million getting off with a slap on the wrist than we are to hear about someone who broke into an empty apartment building getting a similarly light sentence.
  • Kalium 11y ago
    Also, armed robbery is often much easier to prove than more complex securities fraud.
• gohrt 11y ago
  You don't go to prison for white collar crime. That's almost impossible to prove. You go to prison for getting caught lying during an investigation about white color crime.
• Nelson69 11y ago
  It depends on the federal prosecutor, convicting high profile criminals is one of the ways they parlay that in to politics. It's largely a matter of whether the case is winnable. Then if he acts anything like his public persona suggests, I can't see too many prosecutors going easy on him, if he's abrasive or something? It's entirely possible they give him the Schwartz treatment.