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You can't convict someone if you never build a case to begin with. Prosecutors have a very large amount of tools and wide latitude to deploy them; where are the

You can't convict someone if you never build a case to begin with. Prosecutors have a very large amount of tools and wide latitude to deploy them; where are the house searches? The wiretaps? The seizures? The hundreds of criminal charges meant to coerce a settlement? The parallel construction? These are all widely used tools for the lower rungs of the drug trade. Why is everything with these guys some kind of civil lawsuit tit for tat? I'm sure there are other dealers out there with a LLC, but they don't get this treatment.

gruez 5y ago
>where are the house searches? >The seizures? All the good stuff is probably in their lawyers' offices or offshore. Moreover, I doubt you'll find the smoking gun email that's like "plz transfer money I don't want our creditors to get it". >The wiretaps? >The parallel construction? and what, hope that they catch them in the act of admitting that they made such transfers with the intent of hiding them from creditors? Besides, I suspect most of the illegal stuff (eg. getting it approved, hiding the results) were done before the public/government was aware, so wiretapping after fact wouldn't do much. >The hundreds of criminal charges meant to coerce a settlement? They can afford the lawyers.
- pseudalopex 5y ago
  > Moreover, I doubt you'll find the smoking gun email that's like "plz transfer money I don't want our creditors to get it". "[W]hat do you think is going on in all of these courtrooms right now? We’re rich? For how long? Until which suits get through to the family? I think [the investment banker’s] advice was just violated in a Virginia courtroom. My thought is to lever up where we can, and try to generate some additional income. We may well need it. . . . Even if we have to keep it in cash, it’s better to have the leverage now while we can get it than thinking it will be there for us when we get sued."[1] [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1329736/download#page=53 https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1329736/downl...

gruez 5y ago

>where are the house searches? >The seizures? All the good stuff is probably in their lawyers' offices or offshore. Moreover, I doubt you'll find the smoking gun email that's like "plz transfer money I don't want our creditors to get it". >The wiretaps? >The parallel construction? and what, hope that they catch them in the act of admitting that they made such transfers with the intent of hiding them from creditors? Besides, I suspect most of the illegal stuff (eg. getting it approved, hiding the results) were done before the public/government was aware, so wiretapping after fact wouldn't do much. >The hundreds of criminal charges meant to coerce a settlement? They can afford the lawyers.

pseudalopex 5y ago
> Moreover, I doubt you'll find the smoking gun email that's like "plz transfer money I don't want our creditors to get it". "[W]hat do you think is going on in all of these courtrooms right now? We’re rich? For how long? Until which suits get through to the family? I think [the investment banker’s] advice was just violated in a Virginia courtroom. My thought is to lever up where we can, and try to generate some additional income. We may well need it. . . . Even if we have to keep it in cash, it’s better to have the leverage now while we can get it than thinking it will be there for us when we get sued."[1] [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1329736/download#page=53 https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1329736/downl...