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Where would you likely get away with this crime? In a system where you must strike a deal with a party that must maintain loyalty to ideological principles most
by DSingularity 6y ago
Where would you likely get away with this crime? In a system where you must strike a deal with a party that must maintain loyalty to ideological principles most violated by your crime? Or in a system like ours, where you must strike a deal with some prosecutors? The chief concerns of these prosecutors is so often their conviction rates, public optics, and personal careers.
The political structure in the west encourage these kinds of crimes. If you can exploit millions to make billions then you can settle in the event of criminal persecution, hire a pr firm to take care of public optics, and donate generously to parties in power to ensure that the pesky prosecutor/attorney-general is sufficiently motivated not to attempt to make an example out of you.
- gruez 6y ago>If you can exploit millions to make billions then you can settle in the event of criminal persecution, hire a pr firm to take care of public optics, and donate generously to parties in power to ensure that the pesky prosecutor/attorney-general is sufficiently motivated not to attempt to make an example out of you. In this case it doesn't look like they even bothered hiring a PR firm (or they're doing a piss poor job), and they seem to be getting off "fine".