What’s the rule for keeping money from your crimes?

  • @Letme
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    2 months ago

    Duped into giving someone money, sure. Duped into receiving millions in exchange for creating media content that spreads misinformation… Not so sure about that.

  • @andrewta
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    332 months ago

    If it’s an actual crime then you lose the cash. But it has to be proven in a court room. So yeah…

    • Flying Squid
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      162 months ago

      Also, if you’re rich, they let you do it.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      In this case, the streamers themselves might not be guilty. The crime is being a foreign agent paying the media without being registered. That’s on the foreign agents, not the streamers.

      That still might mean they don’t get to keep the money, but it can also be useful to prosecutors to let it slide. It’s a classic move to give the lower level guys a pass to flip them against the higher level guys. Keep working your way up until you, hopefully, get the leader, or someone close, anyway.

  • @NOT_RICK
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    322 months ago

    Right-wing influencers say they were dupes

    It’s good they’re admitting they’re just a bunch of useful idiots, that’s the first step in getting better. They want to get better, right?

  • Flying Squid
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    282 months ago

    “We didn’t know who was giving us money to lie! What’s the problem?”

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    So their explanation is that they were too stupid to figure out why they were being given ridiculous amounts of money?

  • @[email protected]
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    202 months ago

    In an interview following the indictment, Pool insisted the amount he was paid — $100,000 per video — was “around market value for offers we had already received,” and described it as “inconsequential” to his lifestyle.

    Bullshit. They don’t have enough reach to hit these numbers. There’s no way they could get offered this much money and not wonder how they got so lucky. I mean, I realize the MAGA people have wildly distorted views of the world, but you’d have to be completely stupid not to think this was an incredible situation and highly unlikely.

    • @TheFonz
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      22 months ago

      I just imagine Pim Toole grabbing the cash with his eyes closed as Lauren slides it across the table.

  • MushuChupacabra
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    122 months ago

    We were duped, but we want to keep our thirty pieces of silver too.

  • @bitswitch
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    32 months ago

    “I was under the imperio curse I swear!”