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  • Cruxifux
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    413 months ago

    I can’t even think of a time in history where someone was a huge piece of shit in America and “lost everything.” Maybe R Kelley, P Diddy, and Bill Cosby? But only for the time they spent in whatever rich guy jail they got to go to and then they were fine.

      • Cruxifux
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        13 months ago

        lol that was my immediate thought too. But I didn’t want to bring it up because even with the racist implications those guys all definitely suck and should be in prison.

    • @[email protected]
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      353 months ago

      Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind. She manoeuvred herself into a position of wealth and power by defrauding other rich people and got herself 11 years in prison for it. That’s 11 years more than most other rich scumbags get.

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        The most bizarre part of the Theranos scandal is that any medical lab tech/scientist could have told you, right from the initial pitch, the entire thing was a massive scam. There was literally no reason to ever think this technology was feasible and a mountain of reasons it wasn’t.

        • @[email protected]
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          73 months ago

          Elizabeth Holmes only got in trouble for lying to people who should’ve done their “due diligence”

          The patients / families of the patients that Theranos lied to and mislead never got justice.

      • Cruxifux
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        113 months ago

        But after that 11 years didn’t she come out of prison still rich?

        • @[email protected]
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          163 months ago

          She went into prison in 2023 so she will be there for a while yet.

          I don’t think her wealth is known exactly but she and her company lost billions during the scandal.

      • Billiam
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        203 months ago

        And that just goes to show:

        The only time rich people are held accountable in the US, is when they fuck with other rich people’s money.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        The worst of all this is that from the top of our heads we came up with a woman and three black dudes. Other than Madoff I don’t remember any white dude getting any deserved retribution other than the recent United Healthcare CEO.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t know if Sam Bankman-Fried is a huge piece of shit. He’s definitely a liar and a scammer though. But he was like rich as anything and then lost it all. Now he’s trying to curry favour with Trump to get out of jail.

      • masterofn001
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        13 months ago

        If anyone is trying to gain favor from trump that’s enough to tell me about their character.

        Also, yes sbf is a huge piece of shit.