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The money is peanuts. You think the govt cares about $100k in crypto? The salaries of the FBI agents on this and the legal machine that's about to come down har
by anonu 5y ago
The money is peanuts. You think the govt cares about $100k in crypto? The salaries of the FBI agents on this and the legal machine that's about to come down hard on these guys costs millions to maintain.
- paulpauper 5y agoit is more than the $. the plea deal avoids the potentially lengthy and expensive trial.
- anonu 5y agoThere's no need for a plea deal here because the evidence is slam dunk.. the emails .. the dead drop... The government will take their plea and still send them to jail forever. My point is, if i was the justice dept I'd be happy to go to trial.
- sumedh 5y ago> if i was the justice dept I'd be happy to go to trial. or the justice dept can accept the plea deal so they can quickly move to other cases.
- lazide 5y agoThis isn’t the type of case they are in a hurry to file in the back of a filing cabinet somewhere. This is the type of case they want to turn into a public flaying.
- lazide 5y agoThey’re going to hang him as high and hard as they can to make an example of him. If they could force CSPAN and CNN into the court room to watch you bet they would.
- syshum 5y agoPlus that crypto was likely ceased in other operations... it is unlikely they fired up Coinbase and bought some with Tax Payer money