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What's crazy to me is that his parents are lawyers and they both acquiesced or abetted his illegal behavior and now his atrocious defense of said illegal behavior. Not to mention that they benefited from it the whole way.

They all belong in jail.

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They are doing a great job of proving what we already knew: Stanford as an institution is corrupt to its core, from the leadership to the professors, to the alumni. How they continue to have any semblance of a positive reputation is beyond me.

His parents seem low level sociopaths, asking him for money (they must have known was stolen) and using each other as a way to get him to comply (according to leaked emails).

Sam is just a massive sociopath, born out of this.

They are far far from low level sociopaths. His father drafted tax legislation for Elizabeth Warren.

Is this sarcasm or do you really not think it’s possible that a sociopath could draft tax legislation for Elizabeth Warren ?

High level is far far from low level, or at least that was my interpretation.

it doesn't work even as sarcasm. that fact can only say they are competent professionally, nothing about their personality, ethics or morals.

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