[joering2]

Its unbelievable that someone stoles a $20,000 car and do 15 behind bars, yet here we have folks that embazzled $850,000,000 and AG will sit down with them to kibdly negotiate a plea deal and penalize them 4% of what they stole.

I mean seriously what the hell happened to Lady Justice??

[iso1210]

Always been that way. The richer you are the more likely you'll get off. The more abstract a crime the lighter the sentence. Throw them both together.

[WJW]

It has always been this way, read about some of the things the ancient Romans or renaissance Brits/French got up to when you feel like it.

[whywhywhywhy]

Stealing a car is an act of aggression against an individual.

Crimes are not simply about the monetary damages.

[joering2]

But wouldn't you argue that a guy who stole a car and was peacefully caught with no damage to car, people or property, caused less damage than what $850,000,000 stolen from gullible investors did? I mean - wouldn't that turn off victims from ever entering any stock market, be it NASDAQ or even their 401k found, causing more damage to the US financial ecosystem?

[whywhywhywhy]

Out of interest what violent crime would you consider comparable to "$850,000,000 stolen from gullible investors"?

What should the prison sentence be for that in your eyes? and what would a violent crime that gets a similar sentence be?

[pjc50]

"Crime" is more about class than people are willing to admit.

[celticninja]

its the age old thing, if you owe the bank $100k you have a problem, if you owe the bank $100million then the bank has the problem.