Newsletter detailing the world of white collar crime

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/08/newsletter-detailing-the-world.html

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[gracchus]

But the incantations make all the difference!

It’s the difference between “give me half a million every year from now on or I send the video to Page 6” and “Great having you at the party. I have an exclusive hedge fund investment opportunity you really can’t afford to pass up – $20-million minimum buy-in, two-and-twenty, and the ROI will match an S&P index fund at the very least.”

The newsletter looks fun. Thanks for the heads-up.

[bolamig]

I thought this would be about ‘International Living’ magazine.

[Tribune]

@boingboing

One complaint is that COKE’s chief executive officer “believes that the business is really owned by God;

Sometimes you look at business news and ask “Are they insane” and apparently the answer may be “Yes”.

[RickMycroft]

@boingboing

COKE’s chief executive officer “believes that the business is really owned by God

New (Testament) Coke?

[Brainspore]

@boingboing

It’s “a long way from extortion” in the technical sense that they were lawyers and knew the proper incantations to utter to make it not extortion.

Monstrum defendat!

(Slitherin produces all the best attorneys.)

[tekna2007]

Speaking of white collar crime … I was thinking of the newsletter’s discussion of the role of plaintiffs’ attorneys as I read about the settlement with PG&E, where half of the settlement is to be paid in PG&E stock.

Adam Elmahrek (adamelmahrek)

[someguy]

If the victims got ALL the stock, that would be something. The CEO now reports to you.

[milliefink]

I wonder how much this newsletter concerns itself with how rarely white collar crime gets punished, and how lightly it does when it is.