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I suppose I'm supposed to "both sides" this, but do you remember when we elected a conman to the top of every federal org you're despairing of over now? (He was fresh off a civil loss of what? $20 million dollars he had to pay victims of his scam university.) Do you think that maybe that has consequences?

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What? Everyone who could investigate and prosecute SBF right now and for the last two years is a Democrat.

And who appointed the judges those prosecutors will need to prepare cases for and convince? Which party is the party of deregulation (particularly financial deregulation)?

Do you think conservative judges aren’t receptive to fraud cases? Republican appointees regularly give the longest sentences to white collar criminals. Your comment is clearly written about someone who actually knows nothing about law except what the political media prints. And no one has deregulated or legalized outright fraud, which is what happened here.

You mean white collar i suppose?

Do you have this stat? conservative-aligned judges do give harsher sentences to white-collar crimes? Because in my country, this is pretty much the opposite.

They even bail them out of prison for "medical reasons" and then we can see them on the dancefloor at christmas. Hopefully we'll get US-like gun laws (and US will uban sniper rifles and sniper AP rounds, as their mass killing power is low).

Go do your own research if you don’t believe me. I’m not your research assistant.

I found out the exact opposite in fact. You might not have read your research correctly.

https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/10/07/implication...

That has to do with questions of what exactly the law prohibits. A lot of white collar law deals with the very murky line between sharp, but legal, business practices and prohibited conduct. Those kinds of issues don’t usually rear their heads in other kinds of cases, which instead tend to be contested on adequacy of evidence and criminal procedure (Miranda warnings, illegal search and seizure, etc.) grounds.

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