CZ Binance gets just four months! because he sang Beethoven's 9th to the DoJ ( www.theverge.com )

AcausalRobotGod , 13 days ago

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 OP Mod , 13 days ago

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

BlueMonday1984 , 18 days ago

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

froztbyte , 18 days ago

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 OP Mod , 17 days ago

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)

pyrex , 18 days ago

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.