Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/05/ill-gotten-gains.html
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I think this rises to the level of a drone strike.
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Or at least some “enhanced interrogation” to make them reveal where they have hidden all their wealth.
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Man, it would be a real shame if someone were to steal all that money.
What do we need to do to bring into being a real-life Leverage/Ocean’s 11/Hustle team, for times like this when you really need them?
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If only there were some mechanism in the law whereby people who gain from other people’s deaths and suffering could be assured of a punishment that doesn’t leave them living a posh life of luxury…
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Have each and every one of them swear in court that these secret accounts don’t exist, on penalty of a decade in the slammer. Even with the IRS going easy on the wealthy, one of them would slip up eventually and expose the larger web of accounts and implicate the other family members.
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Voiding the settlement and throwing them all in jail as drug dealers could loosen their tongues. Well… it’s a dream.
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Bankrupt and morally bankrupt are two very different things.
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Just prisoner’s dilemma the whole bunch of them.
Offer the first one to turn on all of the others a 0.01% cut of the accounts.
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They could be asked to put $14 billion into a court-controlled account, and end up getting what the court gave Chadwick…
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Feel that? That’s the invisible hand of the free market punching America in the guts… again.
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What about the money they made off their divested drug-pushing profits? You know, interest, capital gains, etc. That money is just as dirty.
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