Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
Articles like this utterly piss me the fuck off.<p>A few weeks ago, I was doing <i>hard</i> time with people who, due to fairly outrageous "re-offender" statues, were serving 15 years for stealing $50 items, or 5 for walking out of Home Depot with a couple hundred dollars in a cart.<p>These assholes steal millions, often from the elderly who trusted "the system", and just walk away scot free because the jury doesn't understand it?  It is beyond outrageous and really shows, to me at least, how our entire CJS in the US has become an sick disgusting joke.<p>I got 15 months for having a small amount of heroin and an oz of weed...I almost lost almost everything I owned and left my clients in a big mess, and these guys don't get any time or even a felony conviction to mess up their lives like mine does?<p>Fuck them and fuck the douchebag prosecutors who are afraid of losing one damn case and messing up their all important conviction ratio.<p>[edited]