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This is one of the grey areas of the US criminal justice system that deeply worries me. By his own account, he willingly participated in a huge accounting fraud, in fact, he seems to have originated some of the most ingenious schemes to turn a regular crooked small private company, into a public one, defrauding many "small" investors along the way. And yet, he was let go (although at least he IS a convicted felon).

All this while thousands of Americans languish in jail/prison for nonviolent drug charges.



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