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Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to 5 years in Federal prison, two years supervised release, and had to forfeit ~$75M out of the $120M he stole. I don't know w
by SoylentYellow 4y ago
Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to 5 years in Federal prison, two years supervised release, and had to forfeit ~$75M out of the $120M he stole. I don't know what happened to the other $45M, but if he somehow kept it, that doesn't seem like much of a deterrent. I bet I could find millions of people willing to go to a minimum security Federal prison for $9M a year for a few years. I know I would.
- mod 4y agoI love these thought experiments. I would very likely go for one year, but I think it's highly unlikely I'd go for two. If I had to go for 5 years to get 45M, I think I'd pass. I definitely am not going to out-earn that or anything, I just value my time way, way too much, and value money way too little. 9M does a lot for my people and me, and after that I think I would just be helping out more people. They can suffer in their own prison! If I could risk 5 years in prison for $120M, with a minimum guaranteed return of 45M and a maximum of 2-3 years? Yeah, I'd go for that, even if the chance to succeed without prison was pretty small, say 20%. The chance to escape punishment is a big motivator, and don't all of us think we're clever enough to do it? Anyway, as you say, I'm the outlier. Almost everyone, even in the richest nation on earth, would accept that level of risk without a whole lot of thought.
- jahnu 4y agoReminds me a bit of this true story https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/102/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/102/