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Fraud that resulted in the violent deaths of potentially hundreds of people and he only got ten years.
by causi 5y ago
Fraud that resulted in the violent deaths of potentially hundreds of people and he only got ten years.
- da_chicken 5y agoHe got quite rich off it, too. > James McCormick, 56, of Langport, Somerset, is said to have made £50m from sales and sold more than 6,000 in Iraq, the Old Bailey heard. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22266051 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22266051
- jpxw 5y agoAnd ten years in prison.
- joncrane 5y agoIf someone told you they'd pay you $5m per year spent in prison, would you take it?
- da_chicken 5y agoI'd be a model prisoner.
- Majestic121 5y agoTo me the person to blame here are the people spending 52M buying it and using it as a protection without testing it. I know it's a bit blaming the victim, but in this case we're not talking about regular people, but about higher ups whose responsibility is precisely to be able to find solutions and handle a budget : if they get scammed (or more probably corrupted) by such ridiculous devices, the blood is on their hand from the minute they accepted the responsibility.