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Just think of the amount they stole. Just like their "charities."  Again, slapped on the wrist and are not allowed to have any more charities..... woopty do. But, think about the amount of money that was just stolen. 
There's two worlds, and we don't live in that world.
I don't care about being rich or poor, but the fucking laws should be the same for those who commit the crime. 
If you think that you or I are going to change that, you're in for a long depressing life. 
We have one short life, instead, use your energy to better your own life. You're wasting your time worrying about those fucks.
Until the punishment is worse than the crime it won’t stop. >

And that's the bottom line. >

And THAT'S...
...the REST of the story. >

17 counts, 15 years and the best they could come up with was $1.6 million??? >

Fines should be pegged at 10x-25x the valued "savings" from the scheme >

The people responsible should be pegged, too. >

What if they enjoy that sort of thing? >

Then use hot sauce for lube. >

What if they enjoy that sort of thing? >

Don't use the sauce then. >

Maybe sand? >

So basically stole money for years and had to pay it back with a negative interest rate. >

Turns out, when you the lower the bar far enough down, it does show you he was smart! >

That was under welming....probably made more on interest from fraud >

It’s hilarious. They probably spent more on their legal bills just this quarter. >

Most of he legal bills are paid for by the RNC. >

The rich can get away with anything in this fucking country. $1.6mil? That's nothing, absolutely disgraceful. >

It's the maximum fine allowable. The laws should change.
If it feels better, there's also a $250M civil suit going on >

Meanwhile, first thing congressional republicans voted to do is gut the IRS to prevent tax code enforcement. >

It doesn't matter what the house does since it'll never pass the senate and on the extremely rare chance it does Biden would veto it.
The house Republicans know this and are just posturing not accomplishing anything. >

Yes, but they are indicating what their top priority is if they do get power, and it’s just gross. Apparently they’re all into law enforcement when it comes to poor people, but not for the rich. I’m no liberal, but shit like that makes me super anti-republican. >

The funny thing is, you want to posture with things that are popular, to show what you could/would do with more power. And according to polling, this isn’t popular even with their base. Probably very popular with their corporate donors though.
Bunch of dangerous dumbasses >

The equivalents of a few $$ for normal people, it's laughable... >

It's equivalent to someone with $10,000 in savings paying a $5 fine. >

“The sheer magnitude of the fraud calls for the maximum possible fine 
for falsifying business records and helping senior managers evade taxes 
as they defrauded the tax authorities."
The Judge agreed. Trump's business was a giant fraud, like his "University" and his "Foundation". >

Honest question: if there were multiple counts and years, why isn't there a separate fine or charge for each count/year? >

Per the news stories: the max fine is double the taxes avoided. I >

Which begs the question of why a so-called billionaire went through all that effort to save 800k over 10 years >

So the corporate lobby was allowed to write state law regarding financial penalties. Cool, cool. >

Very legal, very cool >

And they wonder why people want to burn the whole thing down >

I saw poor people go through MUCH worse for tax fraud, and this scumbag only gets a 1.6 million fine?! >

Tax fraud -> fines
Shoplifting  -> jail
Cool. Cool cool cool. >

$1.6 million? That's  almost as much as they paid Weisselberg. >

1.6 million for tax fraud? They made more than 1.6 million in their tax fraud scheme... >

Yeah, but it’s only stealing from commoners that pay taxes, so no biggie.