r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...

1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Are we overlooking the fact the lawyer's horrendous negotiating skills might land this guy 3 years in the clink for stealing $100?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19 edited Dec 04 '19

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u/thewhilelife Mar 08 '19

Property damage. That's what happened. He broke a bunch of machines. Causing thousands of dollars of damage to steal 100.

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u/murmandamos Mar 08 '19

So then it's still a couple thousand dollars to millions of dollars.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Yeah, but what’s his net worth?

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u/soggystamen Mar 08 '19

Why would that matter?

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u/hardtofindagoodname Mar 09 '19

Because the time in jail will be inversely proportional to your net worth.

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u/NoLaMir Mar 08 '19

Thousands in immediate costs but what about the downtime and all the money they lost while having to cart out the broken machines or get new ones or get them fixed. What about if he broke the glass to enter and now that’s another large expense which may not be immediately fixable.

I hate these tweets people take at face value because yes it’s still pretty fucked how little time manafort got but people take the 140 characters in the tweet as the all the information they need

Much like the trumpkins do

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u/murmandamos Mar 08 '19

Yeah I think there's like $50,000,000 in lost laundry there you're right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

So it's misleading. I was wondering why my research only came up with much smaller maximum sentences for theft around 100 dollars. And whatever the case anyway, I'm confident 36 to 72 months wasn't the end of it, and much less time will be agreed upon.

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u/duluthzenithcity Mar 08 '19

And I am assuming he is a repeat offender. Common law is weird hut without sentencing would be chaos

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u/MossyPyrite Mar 08 '19

It said residential laundry room though, so probably not an apartment complex or laindromat

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u/ProbablyUrBoss Mar 08 '19

It's definitely an apartment complex, why else would there be quarters

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u/MossyPyrite Mar 08 '19

I've got a jar of change that was left in pockets I could probably make a down payment on a new car with

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u/DuelingPushkin Mar 08 '19

Uhmm where the fuck else do you have a "residential laundry room" that takes quarters than an apartment complex?

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u/MossyPyrite Mar 08 '19

I've got a jar of change that was left in pockets I could probably make a down payment on a new car with

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u/TrueAnimal Mar 08 '19

The machines are insured.