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Not sending a written paper trail should be covered in Criminal Surivial Strategies 101. Whether it's telegraph, snail mail, email or WhatsApp, this is just slo
by jdavis703 9y ago
Not sending a written paper trail should be covered in Criminal Surivial Strategies 101. Whether it's telegraph, snail mail, email or WhatsApp, this is just sloppy criminal work. For example Steven Cohen avoided an insider trading conviction by making sure nothing bad ever had his name on it. If you needed to discuss something secret, you talked to him in person.
Background: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/efda2ca2-ec69-11e6-930f-061b01e23655 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/efda2ca2-ec6...
- trendia 9y agoLink is dead for non FT subscribers. (Or at least for those who the FT thinks would pay for a subscription)
- enraged_camel 9y agoE-mail especially is very easy to discover. The "e" in "e-mail" stands for "evidence." :)
- talmand 9y agoIt's likely people such as that don't even realize they are creating a paper trail. "Paper trail? There was no paper! How could there be a trail!?"
- gscott 9y agoEven though Manafort was associated with foreign government figures it took being associated with the U.S President to be investigated. It didn't matter before... having a paper trail was ok, no one cared.