Homeless man gets 15 years in jail for 100$, CEO gets 40 months for 3 Billion.

[Sansha]

Here's the thing.

Being a homeless guy who's aspiring to stay in the detox center, prison is the best place for him. Zero drugs, genuine medical care, a roof over his head and two/three meals a day.

I absolutely guarantee that being in prison, with the above benefits and more for someone in his case, is better than living on the fucking streets fighting to eat, stay warm and away from a drug relapse.

 

[XHolySmokesX]

If you notice the 2nd Story has no paper or writer credit. And why when i search for this article can I find NOT A SINGLE NEWS ARTICLE. All twitter facebook and blogs. Quite frankly I'm not convinced this is even a true story.

I was thinking the same. Also not only was there no source, but there happened to be a picture of a black man on the second, and no pictures for the first story. I think someone is trying to make a claim that the American justice system is racist by creating an outrageous fake story and pumping it throughout the internet.

 

[Zantos]

Holy crap, that shit is sickening. It's ridiculous to see this kind of crap, hell, I'd give the homeless guy a pardon. He was fucking hungry and he turned himself in and all.. god this is ridiculous.

Totally ridiculous. Maybe wouldn't pardon him, but just a month or so in jail or community service.

I bet the CEO used his share of the $3bill to buy himself a sweet ass lawyer, that's how he got so lenient.

Off-topic: Your avatar made me have to go watch that song. I'm frickin addicted! "Now back to the good part!"

 

[Sansha]

Hmmm at first I felt a great deal of sympathy for this man and then I remembered something, I saw a homeless man on the side of the street, starving and freezing as he wallowed in his own filth and disgust, he had a bad cough and had given up even on asking for money, I decided in the end to give him some food and bring him some blankets the next day, 2 years later I came back to that town and he was still there, the blanket I had once given him had become part of his clothing and was now filthy and rotten with the rest of his attire, he hadn't changed since the last I saw him... Honestly I think jail would be better than that, wouldn't you agree?
I mean seriously if he had gotten to the point of hunger where he was willing to attempt to rob a bank then chances are he didn't have any close family to miss while he was in jail, and from what I understand of jails they provide you with multiple meals a day, clean clothes, and a free place to stay, I think that sounds better than the prior...
The CEO should have gotten more time though... Although to be fair he probably lost something as well as his time where as all the homeless guy had to lose was time.

Generally, this. The article says the CEO had a PART in the fraud, it wasn't all him. Maybe it was a very minor part and he didn't mastermind or even partner the bigger parts of the plan. So maybe the sentence was just - what about the others who took part in the fraud?

And I doubt a homeless people have time to lose. Anything spent doing something other than rotting in the street is, by comparison, a vast improvement.

 

[Sprinal]

Difference:
One was white and had money
Other was Black and Poor

Racist judge plus good lawyer = problems with legal system.

Edit:

Also if former had happend it would of been front page news. So there would be a picture. As a result I hearby say that it probably is not true and therefore can be ignoured. Although it can be assummed that the person doing this is trying to have a go at the legal system in the U.S I do agree that it is flawed.

 

[William MacKay]

dont juries go easier if you plead guilty and give up. plus, one was fraud and the other was robbery. they have set sentences, and it doesnt vary on how much you take. if the homeless man stole $3000 and the CEO defrauded $100 (lets say the homeless man took all the money offered, and the CEO got caught straight away) they would probably get similar sentencing.
but that is wrong, and part of the reason i stopped studying law. that and a fear that the mob would shoot my family and burn my house, then steal my puppy.

 

[GodofCider]

If this did actually happen, all you need to know if that one guy stole billions through fraud and the other guy stole $100 through robbery.
To actually determine the guilt of either of them, you would need to know more, but since they were both found guilty, this is not necessary.
To say it is a flawed system, all you need to know is the crime and punishment.

Well...no.

Circumstances 'do' matter.

 

[Liudeius]

If this did actually happen, all you need to know if that one guy stole billions through fraud and the other guy stole $100 through robbery.
To actually determine the guilt of either of them, you would need to know more, but since they were both found guilty, this is not necessary.
To say it is a flawed system, all you need to know is the crime and punishment.

Well...no.

Circumstances 'do' matter.

Not to such a great extent that this remains just. I'm not saying the homeless guy shouldn't have gone to jails, hell, he's probably better off there. There are absolutely NO circumstances which do exist which would justify giving the CEO only 40 months. (Do exist, not could, because they don't.)
Actually, probably could too. Give me one context in which stealing $3 billion is not a serious enough crime to warrant more jail time (other than CEO's obviously).

What's up with all of your ''s?

 

[AgDr_ODST]

if its true on one hand its fucked up...but on the other its good cause this poor fellow wont have to worry about much while hes in prison...except the fact that you know...hes in jail and he can't leave if he suddenly tires of it.


But I think that the latter story is fake so Im not bothered by it

 

[fingerbang143]

There's more to it than that, robbing a bank with a gun (or pretending to have one) is a violent crime punishable my several years. And since the homeless guy was probably a repeeat offender I think it was justified. Stealing money by fraud is a non violent crime, BUT if you steal over 50 million by fraud then it IS considered a violent crime

 

[gigastrike]

A. white-collar crimes have fairly lenient punishments in general.

B. the homeless guy is probably better off now that he has a home and regular meals (a lot of homeless people actually get arrested intentionally for that very reason).

 

[Laxman9292]

This disgusts me.

How do you guys feel about this? Any idea of what we can do to make this shit better?

Because, under the law, robbing a bank period probably has a minimum of 15 years

On the other hand, tax evasion has a fine OR a maximum 5 year incarceration or a combination of both. I'm not sure what type of fraud he committed but i would think it would have similar punishments.

You see, the law is the law and applies to everyone. Just because a person is poor or had good reasons to break the law doesn't mean he is not punished as harshly by it. The law applies the same to everyone, not just people who can afford it.

He wasn't convicted of tax evasion. He was convicted of fraud. A similar case is being prosecuted in the same state, and the prosecutor is seeking a 385-year sentence. You can read about it <link=http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/virginia/Farkas-may-face-life-sentence-for-fraud>here

Thanks for that. Well anyways I guess maybe he cooperated and helped out the prosecutors or something. Cause no way would they settle for 6 years unless he was cooperative or there's a maximum sentence. I just don't know enough about it

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Saw that picture weeks ago in a thread entitled "the problem with the US Justice system".

People said the reason the homeless man got so much time because they figured that prison would be enough of a substitute of a home for him. I don't know what to say on it all.

 

[EllEzDee]

"Race: B"
Why did this make me laugh?

Anyway: America - land of the corrupt.

 

[dancinginfernal]

The funny thing is it probably IS cause he's black
America is still extremely prejudice.
then so is every country

Or that's he's a repeat offender who has done this before.

 

[joemegson94]

Marxists won't like that.

Now that I've posted one of my catchphrases, I can say that this is disgusting. Land of equality, my arse.

 

[Sebster 105]

The funny thing is it probably IS cause he's black
America is still extremely prejudice.
then so is every country

Or that's he's a repeat offender who has done this before.

That'd make sense.

 

[let's rock]

Sigh. Welcome to america.

 

[KiKiweaky]

One thing going against the bank robber is that he walked into a bank and told somebody this is a robbery, 15 years still seems insane for something like that

I dont think any of the ceo's of many of the large banks responsible for driving their companies and the global economy into the ground have been prosecuted whats more is they were given severence pay in the hundreds of millions in most cases. Its actually a sickening thought :|