Spotlight: From Pinstripes to Prison Stripes
Features • January 23, 2006
ABC-TV news anchor regarding concerns about other prison inmates in his new home at a South Dakota minimum security prison, Yankton. The interview from his jail cell was the first Segal has given ...
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Subject: Jailtime for fraudsters
Posted On: April 8, 2006, 4:35 am CDT
Posted By: Jon Bond
Comment:
White collar criminals are just as bad as old-time mobsters. They cheat, deceive, rob, and cloak their wrongdoings with a veneer of respectability, bought with stolen money. They all seem to be absolute hypocrites.
Giving to charities is very good, but how much would Segal have paid to charitable causes if the money had to be earned and tax paid before he could give it away.
They use stolen money to build a powerbase of influential allies, usually politicians and lobbyists, and then when prosecutors start making inquiries they call on their bought 'friends' to help them out.
Society, and sentencing guidelines, should not show any preferential treatment to white collar crooks; they should be treated in exactly the same way as other classes of common criminals.
Subject: Jailtime for fraudsters
Giving to charities is very good, but how much would Segal have paid to charitable causes if the money had to be earned and tax paid before he could give it away.
They use stolen money to build a powerbase of influential allies, usually politicians and lobbyists, and then when prosecutors start making inquiries they call on their bought 'friends' to help them out.
Society, and sentencing guidelines, should not show any preferential treatment to white collar crooks; they should be treated in exactly the same way as other classes of common criminals.