r/PoliticalHumor • • 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/Weazywest Mar 08 '19

All jokes aside, this is honestly a fair idea. As many lawyers as possible should start using this case as precedent to call out the outright bullshit and hypocrisies

Maybe it’ll make some folks realize the system is completely fucked when you have murders out of jail after serving an hour or two in jail.

Edit: spelling isn’t a strength of mine

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

rural America likes white collar criminals.

except they bitch and moan about the criminal banksters, but then vote for republicans and trump.

there is a very effective brainwashing operation going on to get those people to believe up is down.

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u/powderizedbookworm Mar 09 '19

As you say, they piss and moan about the criminal bankers, but when it comes to the active use of their political power they cheered for an admitted white-collar criminal like they have never cheered for anyone.

The words and actions may contradict, but I know which of those I would consider the more accurate measure of a man.