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Thoughts on Tether calling their accounting method “iFAP” of all choices:

There’s a saying amongst investigators that some criminals, as ever more time passes with them not getting caught, start to behave as if they were taunting police to finally catch them.

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There's a white collar crime investigator who has a sign in his interrogation room: "If you're here, you're not as smart as you thought you were."

> There's a white collar crime investigator who has a sign in his interrogation room: "If you're here, you're not as smart as you thought you were."

There's a white collar crime investigator who believes that everyone is guilty until proven how guilty.

That's pretty much how investigators work. Obviously you can't discount the fact that someone isn't guilty, but if you have got as far as to get them in front of you then you're onto something.

Just because I can't prove something to the criminal burden of proof doesn't mean that they didn't do it, it just means I can't get the job over the line.

> There's a white collar crime investigator who has a sign in his interrogation room: "If you're here, you're not as smart as you thought you were."

Sounds like typical bullshit that you get in a profession where everyone kisses your ass because you can ruin their life on a whim even if they didn't do anything wrong.

I'm sure the boot-licking "everyone accused is probably guilty of something" crowd loves it.

Academics do this stuff too though. SATAN was a network security tool. Linnaeus himself abused the taxonomy system he invented to name pest species after people he didn't like.

Trolls do that sort of thing to gloat to other trolls.

Trolls who are also scammers, in addition do it to make people think they're in on the joke, when really they're the butt of it.

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