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Does this cooperation mean that those fraudsters don't go to prison? The whole team knew about stealing billions of dollars of money, clearly there's more than
by xiphias2 4y ago
Does this cooperation mean that those fraudsters don't go to prison?
The whole team knew about stealing billions of dollars of money, clearly there's more than 1 person (and more than 1 company's executives) that need prison time.
- ceejayoz 4y agoIt means they get less prison time in exchange for helping prove the cases that give lots of prison time to others.
- disqard 4y agoYup, there's no dilemma among the potential prisoners here -- the best policy is to "do the rat thing".
- greenyoda 4y agoAs the letter mentions, that's entirely up to the sentencing judge to decide. All the DOJ can do is to inform the judge that Ellison cooperated with them.
- ceejayoz 4y agoProsecutors can't promise the judge will do anything; the judge doesn't work for them. However, judges have the same vested interest in honoring these deals as the prosecutors do; the prosecutors or the defendant have to really piss off the judge to have it disregarded entirely.
- tootie 4y agoIt doesn't say specifically but if there was a grant of immunity it would probably say so. More likely they are pleading guilty which usually gets a lesser sentence in exchange for full cooperation and no trial.
- elliekelly 4y agoWell she’s agreed to plead guilty so she definitely wasn’t granted immunity...