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Is it working in the media for him, though? No.

• TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
  I'd guess most jury members will have no clue what any of this is about. It'll just sound like big numbers, weird people speaking in jargon, and acronym soup. If he's convicted it won't be on the details, but on credibility. The "I don't recall" strategy won't fool a judge, but it might fool enough jurors. I think the prosecution is going to have to work unexpectedly hard to nail him to the wall. But I also suspect there's more to the story than we're being told. The fact that so much of the money seems to have gone on bribes and political donations, the fact that his parents are lawyers but apparently were shocked - shocked! - to discover he was doing something illegal, the fact that he seems so casual about the whole thing - it's all a little strange. His father "is considered a leading scholar in the discipline of tax law" and is a Stanford Professor of Law and Business. So with no obvious warning signs this must have come as a complete surprise to him.
  • callalex 3y ago
    Stanford is corrupt to its core, so none of this is all that unexpected.