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Theres a guy in the US sentenced to 845 years for a white collar crime [1] [1] https://medium.com/lighterside/sentenced-to-845-years-the-thief-that-never-stole
by ROARosen 6y ago
Theres a guy in the US sentenced to 845 years for a white collar crime [1]
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https://medium.com/lighterside/sentenced-to-845-years-the-thief-that-never-stole-anything-9618d5356ae2 https://medium.com/lighterside/sentenced-to-845-years-the-th...
- amelius 6y agoProbably because his crime was, rather arbitrarily, divided into sub-crimes, and the sentences for these were summed.
- FeepingCreature 6y agoProbably. But to mangle a quote: nice reason, still injustice.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- ROARosen 6y agoI'm not that familiar with the case. Here is the first result from google however, comparing his sentence with other notorious cases[1] [1]https://www.freedomforsholam.com/ https://www.freedomforsholam.com/
- bccdee 6y agoRight. Law systems based on terror of penalty. The US prison system is shockingly regressive.
- trasz 6y agoOn the other hand, in USA one can sometimes get sentenced a fine for murder, so perhaps it evens out
- ROARosen 6y agoUPDATE: A day after we discussed this case here, Trump commuted this guys sentence (his last day in office)[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholam_Weiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholam_Weiss