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Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme

softwaredoug 1y ago
If they had just thought to get in the Trump cabinet they could have gotten away with it.
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altairprime 1y ago
Three REV executives were charged: > Taino Lopez and Alexander Mehr, co-founders of Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC (“REV”), and its Chief Operating Officer, Maya Burkenroad
ohyoutravel 1y ago
He needs to make a donation to the administration asap if he’s going to get this dropped.
- sudoshred 1y ago
  Too little too late
- rchaud 1y ago
  He's small fry now. Maybe if he had a popular podcast things would be different.
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- shadowtree 1y ago
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  - hcknwscommenter 1y ago
    Biden and Obama pardons were done by setting criteria (non-violent drug offenders mainly who got caught up in three strikes nonsense, serving huge sentences) and applying the criteria broadly. Trump is targeting specific folks who are contributing to his cause. Tai Lopez has very little chance under a Democratic presidency, per hard data. He has a decent chance under Trump if he can buy enough trump coin and say some flattering things about Trump, per hard data.
    - calvinmorrison 1y ago
      Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too. Obama pardoned his close advisor who lied to the FBI Clinton pardoned Marc Rich - fugitive who's exwife donated lots of money to the clinton Presidential Library or something. Grant pardoned his own private secretary Truman pardoned his own yokel local union mobsters from KC etc
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      - tzs 1y ago
        > Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too He pardoned several family members. It should be noted that Hunter is the only one who had actually been charged or convicted of a crime. The others were all preemptive with the stated reason being that Trump was promising to go after the families of basically anyone he saw as an enemy. Biden had earlier said he would not pardon Hunter, but that was before Trump won. He pardoned Hunter because he didn't think Hunter would be treated the same as the other prisoners in federal prison with Trump in charge. If Harris had won it is very likely Hunter would not have been pardoned and would have went to prison for the maybe 3 years that most experts predict he would have received. Considering that a decade from now if you tell someone that the origin of the phrase "trumped up charges" comes from a 300+ year old meaning of the verb "trump" related to an Old French word for deceive and a Middle English word for fabricate they will probably will think you are making it up and the "trump" in the phrase means Donald Trump, it is hard to argue that Biden was wrong.
- masfuerte 1y ago
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JackWilli 1y ago
he is going to have plenty of time to finally read those books and acquire knowledge in prison
- nikcub 1y ago
  unfortunately the SEC can't do that - will have to wait on the DOJ
Hikikomori 1y ago
Here in my garage
ctkhn 1y ago
I'm here in my cell
FaisalAbid 1y ago
knowledge
- handfuloflight 1y ago
  gnawledge
bigglywiggler 1y ago
I guess he didn't have enough knowledge
SuperNinKenDo 1y ago
It's always the ones you least suspect...
tomhow 1y ago
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If they had just thought to get in the Trump cabinet they could have gotten away with it.

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Three REV executives were charged: > Taino Lopez and Alexander Mehr, co-founders of Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC (“REV”), and its Chief Operating Officer, Maya Burkenroad

ohyoutravel 1y ago

He needs to make a donation to the administration asap if he’s going to get this dropped.

sudoshred 1y ago
Too little too late
rchaud 1y ago
He's small fry now. Maybe if he had a popular podcast things would be different.
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shadowtree 1y ago
[flagged]
- hcknwscommenter 1y ago
  Biden and Obama pardons were done by setting criteria (non-violent drug offenders mainly who got caught up in three strikes nonsense, serving huge sentences) and applying the criteria broadly. Trump is targeting specific folks who are contributing to his cause. Tai Lopez has very little chance under a Democratic presidency, per hard data. He has a decent chance under Trump if he can buy enough trump coin and say some flattering things about Trump, per hard data.
  - calvinmorrison 1y ago
    Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too. Obama pardoned his close advisor who lied to the FBI Clinton pardoned Marc Rich - fugitive who's exwife donated lots of money to the clinton Presidential Library or something. Grant pardoned his own private secretary Truman pardoned his own yokel local union mobsters from KC etc
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    - tzs 1y ago
      > Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too He pardoned several family members. It should be noted that Hunter is the only one who had actually been charged or convicted of a crime. The others were all preemptive with the stated reason being that Trump was promising to go after the families of basically anyone he saw as an enemy. Biden had earlier said he would not pardon Hunter, but that was before Trump won. He pardoned Hunter because he didn't think Hunter would be treated the same as the other prisoners in federal prison with Trump in charge. If Harris had won it is very likely Hunter would not have been pardoned and would have went to prison for the maybe 3 years that most experts predict he would have received. Considering that a decade from now if you tell someone that the origin of the phrase "trumped up charges" comes from a 300+ year old meaning of the verb "trump" related to an Old French word for deceive and a Middle English word for fabricate they will probably will think you are making it up and the "trump" in the phrase means Donald Trump, it is hard to argue that Biden was wrong.
masfuerte 1y ago
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JackWilli 1y ago

he is going to have plenty of time to finally read those books and acquire knowledge in prison

nikcub 1y ago
unfortunately the SEC can't do that - will have to wait on the DOJ

Hikikomori 1y ago

Here in my garage

ctkhn 1y ago

I'm here in my cell

FaisalAbid 1y ago

knowledge

handfuloflight 1y ago
gnawledge

bigglywiggler 1y ago

I guess he didn't have enough knowledge

SuperNinKenDo 1y ago

It's always the ones you least suspect...

tomhow 1y ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393576.