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Not the OP, but I read his comment as frustration with "One law for rich, another for the poor". One can agree that Aleynikov should be convicted, but hope tha
by shabda 11y ago
Not the OP, but I read his comment as frustration with "One law for rich, another for the poor". One can agree that Aleynikov should be convicted, but hope that the law should pursue people who play fast and lose with public money with the same zeal they shown here.
- tptacek 11y agoSure. But perhaps some of that frustration should be directed at legislatures that are too afraid of disrupting the economy and being blamed for job loss to criminalize the shady stuff giant banks do? Because one reason there's "one law" for people like Aleynikov and another for bank execs is that theft is black-letter illegal, and whatever-it-is we want to blame GS for might not be, yet. One bias prosecutors definitely have is taking cases they think they can win.
- erikpukinskis 11y agoFraud is definitely illegal.