CZ Binance gets just four months! because he sang Beethoven's 9th to the DoJ (www.theverge.com)
from dgerard@awful.systems to buttcoin@awful.systems on 01 May 2024 17:57
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[deleted] on 01 May 2024 18:03 next collapse

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pyrex@awful.systems on 01 May 2024 19:17 next collapse

Apparently, if you want to get away with crimes, you should find someone you can rat on and commit them in a way that makes that person highly complicit.

froztbyte@awful.systems on 02 May 2024 09:09 next collapse

you know, I’m not a fan of the carceral system (and even less so the US flavour of it), but this is so fucked. it’s a god damned shame that it’s presently likely these dirtbags will never pay their due to society[0] for all the harm they caused

([0] - not that sticking someone in a concrete cell is in any way addressing that debt, ofc)

dgerard@awful.systems on 02 May 2024 19:27 collapse

to be fair, CZ is absolutely the richest guy in a US cell right now, and possibly ever (though I haven’t checked the latter)

BlueMonday1984@awful.systems on 02 May 2024 13:14 next collapse

Whatever CZ gave to the feds, it must’ve been a fucking goldmine.

AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems on 06 May 2024 19:09 collapse

I think this might have basis as well in the lenient treatment of banks in the past for similar crimes. Which is also a shame.

dgerard@awful.systems on 06 May 2024 21:11 collapse

so what happens with those is crippling compliance obligations, which Binance was also hit with