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I could completely see an argument for tax evasion, that is a crime where the technical victim is the government (and thus, citizenry), not where the victim is
by nrmitchi 4y ago
I could completely see an argument for tax evasion, that is a crime where the technical victim is the government (and thus, citizenry), not where the victim is an illegal operation that no longer exists.
However, he isn’t being charged with a tax crime. He’s being charged with “wire fraud” for double withdrawing from Silk Road.
- jamespo 4y agoSo committing a crime against criminals is OK?
- nrmitchi 4y agoI can see you just trying to bait me into a non-productive debate, so I will say this. I am not going to make any statement regarding whether or not financial crimes against known and convicted criminal enterprises should be deprioritized in relation to crimes against regular citizens. In this case though, the "victim" has not existed for over 9 years and will never exist in the future, there are no ongoing victism, and there are no downstream victims to return restitution to. I do not believe the justice department should be pursuing cases (cold or not) where the only goal is siezing (not recovering) assets for their own benefit.