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  So much faith in our government
context: "The decision by Governor Albert Bryan to fire the A.G. came just days after Bloomberg News revealed that Ms. George in her capacity as V.I. attorney general had filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase — the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization — without first informing Governor Bryan of such a major action, said a person with knowledge of the matter.
  The lawsuit claims JPMorgan Chase facilitated convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of women and girls, alleging that the bank should have known about Epstein’s illegal activity and as part of its anti-money laundering procedures, should have reported their client to authorities." >
  
  Methinks someone doesn’t want that client list to be discovered. 
  Good for her, and screw him. I hope she pushes back. >
  
  That list is scrubbed by the time we see it. >
  
  Prisons should have those amenities. What do you think happens when you lock people up with nothing to do? Fuck Maxwell and all that, but your anger is misplaced >
  
  Rehabilitation should always be the default goal. But in these kinds of 1/100.000.000 cases where someone has the means to do literally anything in this world and opts to rape kids and deny it until they're found guilty, I think most would agree they can reasonably be denied those amenities. >
  
  I see where you're coming from 
  I would argue we should still provide these services to people who are not worthy. We have essentially made them wards of the state, denying them autonomy for the remainder of their lives, rending them incapable of the kind of damage they could previously enact. What do we, as a society gain from making them miserable? If we begin to see the prison system as a weapon to do harm with what will the end result of that be societally?
  Edit: many of you are replying to this with broader subjects surrounding prison justice, and while i generally agree with all of those sentiments this comment is specifically about justifying amenities for even the worst people incarcerated. >
  
  The prison system is already weaponized in the USA. Only its weaponized against the poor/marginalized. White collar criminals go to club fed, and everyone else gets for-profit state prisons, with slave labour and 23 hr lock downs. >
  
  This is true, but making the better prisons worse wont make the worse ones better. >
  
  I agree with you. I think we should treat all people with respect, even the people that don't deserve respect. I also know that even at the best prisons, things like the offering of yoga/pilates means that an instructor comes maybe once a month to teach a class. And that websites use sensational titles to generate clicks. Prison sucks, even with pilates classes. >
  
  This is in the Virgin Islands, for those who didn’t immediately get the references to V.I. or USVI. >
  
  Thank you. I didn't. Times like this make me which subreddit rules allowed clarification (e.g. location) in the headline. As it's currently written, it is simply meaningless to me. >
  
  Headline should read "Attorney general takes on big banks and sex traffickers, gets pushback from those above her who stink of corruption" >
  
  Thank you, short headline that covers the main topics! >
  
  This will result in a massive lawsuit. It's not actually clear if he has the power to fire her in this scenario and will almost certainly be taken to court. >
  
  Isn’t the AG appointed at-will by the executive? >
  
  At-will employment doesn’t cover wrongful termination. If this firing was exclusively to facilitate a cover up, that may be a crime in and of itself. Now of course political appointments are not the same as normal jobs, but governors should not be allowed to crime all over the place >
  
  Appointed government positions can't be wrongfully terminated.  They can simply be told their services are no longer required, though usually they are allowed to resign rather than be fired >
  
  Incredible that people are upvoting this. Yes, termination can still be illegal. The 14th amendment isn't secondary to state employment laws or common industry practice.
  Edit: made the wording more clear >
  
  Not to be a pedant, but I also said that the wrongful termination law isn’t the one that would apply here; however it’s illustrative of the same logic: firing for illegitimate/malfeasant reasons is not protected >
  
  Yeah I was mocking the person who replied to you. You're all good. >
  
  So we have AGs that file frivolous lawsuits only to break faith in democracy and normalize people delegitimizing the votes of their neighbors. We have AGs that have drunken ran over people, killed them, then covered it up. We have AGs that have been under federal indictment for almost a decade and all sorts of other abuse of office complaints but the only one getting quickly fired is the one trying to hold people accountable for sex trafficking and rape? >
  
  Our AG kept suing school districts over mask mandates, and kept losing. >
  
  Missouri? This sounds like Missouri… >
  
  Yep. MO. >
  
  I always thought MO was a weird abbreviation.  There's no O in Misery. >
  
  I mean Missouri is ranked pretty low on the education quality list. >
  
  What happens when you go after the real bad guys. >
  
  Bankers…can’t trust them. Apparently can’t touch them either. >
  
  A problem as old as the Medicis'. >
  
  Stuff like this is exactly why there are so many conspiracy theories out there about Epstein and all these politicians and ‘important people’ >
  
  Is it really a conspiracy anymore? >
  
  Yea it’s pretty obvious to me and a lot of people that there’s a bunch of powerful people (celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs, etc.) that hung out and did shady shit with Epstein. And they all cover for each other. >
  
  The "it's pretty obvious" is how every single conspiracy theory starts.
  If your "conspiracy" includes more than couple of people, that's a dead give away it's just a conspiracy theory. Once you get to about a dozen of people that need to be "in" on the secret, there's no way that can stay secret for long. Conspiracy that involves hundreds or thousands of people? Such things simply don't exist, and can not exist in practice. Once you get to that scale, you know with 100% certainty it's simply batshit crazy conspiracy theory. >
  
  yeah the manhattan project famously was only a couple of people >
  
  Only about a dozen or so people knew the purpose and the full extent of the project. They were mostly all locked up in the middle of a desert in Los Alamos with strictly controlled communications with the outside world. At Oak Ridge plant, a major fission processing facility, literally nobody knew what they were doing there. The vast majority of people involved in the project had no clue what was going on. It was in a middle of a world war when doing the work and not asking questions was the norm.
  So... Yes. You are 100% correct. Manhattan project was famously only a couple of people who had the inside knowledge of what was going on. >
  
  so you’re arguing that conspiracy theories are bullshit because they can’t involve thousands of people but the manhattan project successfully used compartmentalization to involve thousands of people in a covert project?
  seems insanely likely that military and intelligence groups could use this exact same strategy to do activities that get called “conspiracy theory.” assassination, drug smuggling, coup de’tats… >
  
  Whatever you want to believe into.
  They never expected to be able to keep it a secret for any extended period of time. It was only possible to keep it under covers during development efforts. They could only pull it off due to overall war effort that was going on.
  To suggest that government is secretly running a worldwide pedophile ring for rich, famous, and well connected... It's just plain insane. >
  
  'We didn't have that guy killed for people to keep on talking about him!' >
  
  What do you mean? He committed suicide in his cell. It is known. >
  
  Lol yep. He killed himself, and both guards just happened to fall asleep. Oh, and the cameras just happened to have malfunctioned at that time.
  Lol I legitimately don't even know how someone can look at that ridiculous scenario and think to themselves "Yep, that totally sounds plausible". Lmfao. >
  
  It’s plausible, but it’s also plausible that he was killed. The fact of the matter is that we don’t know what happened. >
  
  "You sued one of my fucking BOSSES!?!" >
  
  Please, we prefer to refer to them as patrons. It's much more refined than bosses. /s >
  
  "How dare you sue one of my donors!" >
  
  So the Governor took a huge "Donation" from JPMorgan Chase. >
  
  Public corruption should be a capital offense. Reinstate the AG and investigate the mayor. >
  
  She'll be back in Attorney General 2: Judgement Day >
  
  Come with me if you want to enforce the law! >
  
  *Puts sunglasses on and racks his shotgun* >
  
  His sunglasses were actually broken and discarded immediately before that line. >
  
  Fair enough! It's been a few years since I've seen it. I was just touching on the iconography for upvotes and my own amusement. >
  
  And I was correcting you because I am a deranged person who can't help himself. (and I've seen that movie probably 70 times) >
  
  I fully understand. It's a good movie. Was one of my favorites when I was younger. Had it recorded on a VHS from TV. Sadly, I no longer have a working VHS player. >
  
  Lmao she doesn’t need approval from a governor to file charges >
  
  But, he's firing her for doing her job.
  I wonder how much Chase Bank donated to the governor's campaign? >
  
  Probably holds the States accounts by the balls >
  
  So, another smart woman has been "terminated" for doing her job, because she did not get "permission" from Daddy? God I hate this garbage. Is this not in her job description, to go after entities that have wronged people or smaller businesses that do not have the clout to fight for themselves? I do get tired of the' teeny-peeny' men running things so badly. >
  
  Guess whose name is on the Epstein List… >
  
  does the AG need permission from the governor to do things? this is so stupid lmao the dude probably wanted to sell stocks before she started the lawsuit, just watch >
  
  Well that’ll show you what happens when you try to hold people with power accountable. >
  
  Don't you dare sue JPMorgan Chase! >
  
  This is how no one heard of his crimes for decades. >
  
  That seems a bit excessive, they could have just fired her >
  
  Termination seems a tad extreme. >
  
  Fuck! Come with me if you want to live! >
  
  Didn’t know anything about the USVI AG before this. Here is their website if anyone is interested. >
  
  For a second I thought a T-800 got to her. >
  
  Getting just a little too close? Wouldn’t want to interrupt the money flow. >
  
  Who's gonna get suicided now? >
  
  Racist against who? >
  
  JpMorgan is too powerful and should be demolished >
  
  We have the most corrupt government ever. >
  
  Why not release the Epstein Client List? >
  
  For anyone else confused, V.I. stands for Virgin Islands.