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Nobody should feel sorry for him, I was the CTO of Motionloft during the first two years of the company, and before he started stealing from the company (as far
by jpsilvashy1 13y ago
Nobody should feel sorry for him, I was the CTO of Motionloft during the first two years of the company, and before he started stealing from the company (as far as we know). He is/was the most selfish and delusional person I've ever met. I hope he ends up in jail for a really long time.
- loceng 13y agoOr perhaps gets the help and guidance and mentors he needs now that he's no longer able to get away with that behaviour?
- jpsilvashy1 13y agoReally? We have enough smart minded people that are responsible and willing to work hard. Why worry about rehabilitation for him? He doesn't deserve another shot at earning an investors trust... You must be kidding.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoJail's not for dudes like that.
- urethra 13y agoCan't wait until his prison stint where his cherry anus gets "disrupted".
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agohey hey hey ain't nobody deserves that.
- pekk 13y agoYou should not be posting to HN.
- sizzle 13y agoThis isn't the Yahoo! News comments section, please keep it civil.
- Synthetase 13y agoYeah, justice is only for black people and scummy minorities. He broke the law and committed felonies. It's definitely for him.
- lmm 13y agoUS prisons are pretty far away from justice
- adventured 13y agoYou realize you just called this guy delusional, and simultaneously you're saying you're qualified to decide who deserves another chance and who doesn't.
- faceofboe 13y agoYeah it's quite a high horse considering JP got canned for embezzling money from Motionloft.
- jpsilvashy1 13y agoI didn't get "canned" first of all. I left because Chris and I believed Jon was stealing from the company, but he blocked me from raising my concerns up to our investors citing that it would breach my contract to make communications with anyone outside the company. The original stock certificates I received from Jon in 2011 have turned out to be completely fraud. Can you please elaborate on how anyone besides Jon Mills embezzled funds from the company? Also who is this anyhow? You can just say your name.
- jpsilvashy1 13y agoAdditionally "faceofboe", whom I don't know who you are... the stock certificate I have that was issued by Jon himself has recently been verified by our attorneys to be fake and invalid. I'm not really sure what embezzlement I could have committed, As the CTO, I never had direct access to any of our funds, I didn't have a checking account, a bank card, or the ability to spend the companies money, I'd love for you to show some details of your claims. I don't think it's a good idea for you to make these sort of statements either.
- jpsilvashy1 13y agoMaybe you should identify who you are and your claims against me. That's pretty ridiculous to post here without any supporting details.
- adamdavis 13y agoI'm just going to support this opinion as I felt in a fairly similar way to the parent comment and I'm a little disappointed to see you down voted. I don't see what benefit sending this guy to jail provides other than a simple avenue for enacting vengeance on someone who behaved poorly. Worst case, he should have to repay all of his debts and money he swindled. He'll take whatever lessons from his mistakes that he may.
- rayiner 13y agoSo the worst case penalty for fraud is possibly having to give back what you stole? Given a non zero chance of not getting caught, that makes fraud a positive expected value course of action.
- fidotron 13y agoThis doesn't sound like it's just fraud, but full on mental delusional stuff. In that case throwing him in jail is probably not going to help matters by itself, and he needs doctors. Ideally some mix of the two. I've known people like this, luckily that didn't get backed, and it can get incredibly messy. Things like maxing credit cards, identity changes, disappearing to foreign countries. It's better for everyone in the long run that this gets sorted properly as he'll just emerge from prison desperate to get back and will do something worse.
- deong 13y agoHow does this case sound any different than, say, Bernie Madoff? On the face of it, it sounds like a much more blatant fraud than Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco CEO who served about 8 years in prison, or Bernie Ebbers (what is it with guys named "Bernie"?), who is still serving a 25 year sentence for defrauding WorldCom investors. People stealing money and behaving erratically when it collapses around them isn't evidence of mental illness. Maybe he's nuttier than a squirrel hole, but right now, I don't see any reason to assume he's not just a criminal.
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- mathattack 13y agoMentors? Who in their right mind would mentor a criminal like this?
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- BlackDeath3 13y agoHonesty and candidness is refreshing, I think.