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I agree, didn't they admit they knew what they were doing? They should all do the same amount of time.
by josephd79 3y ago
I agree, didn't they admit they knew what they were doing? They should all do the same amount of time.
- 8ytecoder 3y agoYou’re basically getting rid of prisoner’s dilemma. No one will ever snitch.
- tim333 3y agoSpeaking as a victim, this seems to have been basically Sam's doing. Fair enough his underlings didn't shop him but that's a lesser offence.
- ncallaway 3y agoThat would absolutely remove the incentive for anyone to cooperate with the government ever again. Such a system would make it nearly impossible to proesecute the higher levels of a criminal enterprise. It’s easy to prosecute the foot-soldiers of a criminal enterprise with outside evidence. The leadership of it typically requires testimony from others within the enterprise. So, your approach of eliminating all benefits to criminal defendants for cooperating with the government would *massively* enable organized crime, and would end with a criminal justice system that comes down hard on the low-level members, while giving the organizers and planners a walk.
- kawhah 3y agoSBF could simply have chosen to plead guilty, then this would have been roughly what happened.