[quote=Rocco1313]Bernard Ebbers, Marc Dreir, Samuel Cohen, Allen Stanford, Tom Petters, etc the list goes on. You can brush off Bernie likes it nothing but some people are essentially doing life sentences for white collar crimes.
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"Some people", the majority of them aren't. There are rich, lesser known, heads of companies and banks who get essential slaps on the wrist for similar crimes. And they arent all highly publicized like those cases mentioned, they're mentioned like once or twice and then passed over.
Like who? You keep saying this but who is stealing millions of dollars and getting light sentences?
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Besides the argument is moreso that he was sentenced this way because of his name. It shouldn't be "some people". Everyone shoukd be sentenced the same according to there crime, youre cheating people out of life savings, credit, college funds, etc. Yet we see that this isn't the case. A guy is given a 30 year sentence because his name is Nicodemo Scarfo. Whereas its proven that someone convicted of the exact same crime, with a lesser known name is almost guaranteed a lighter sentence, in some country club prison program.
And looking at that list, only half of those listed got 20 years or more. And in all the cases they extorted between the 100-500 million mark. Scarfo &, Pellulo according to the indictment only got about 12 million. There's a clear discrepancy here.
Nicky Jr is a career criminal, a made member with multiple felonies to his name. That matters alot, do you not understand how that would factor in big time when it comes to sentencing? The only reason there fraud was only 12 million is because they got caught fast which is typical of Nicky Jr. Also the whole country club prison thing is pretty much bullshit.
Have you ever watched MSNBC Money & Greed? Thats basically an entire program based around these scams. There's plenty of them and a select few get over 20 year sentences. You ever heard of Robert Lino Jr? A made guy, a active captain with a criminal history who operated a pump and dump scheme on Wall Street, got 27 years, probably will serve half that before being released, somehow got less than Scarfo, albeit only three years for siphoning off $50 million? And Scarfo Jr. Gets 30 years for $12 million dollars? Do you not understand how his name factored into Scarfo Jr's sentence?
As far as the country club thing being bullshit, I don't think so, but okay.
