If you rob a bank for $10,000, and later give the money back, it doesn't eliminate the bank robbery charge. Probably doesn't even reduce the sentence. The wri

If you rob a bank for $10,000, and later give the money back, it doesn't eliminate the bank robbery charge. Probably doesn't even reduce the sentence. The writer has admitted to a felony (several felonies, actually) in his post. That may be a stupid law for events such as have been described, but it is the law in the United States.