Friends with a Criminal?

[Anonymous]

Are you friends with or could you be friends with someone who has committed a crime? Would it depend upon the type of crime? Unfortunately, this has come up in my life. Relative by marriage (but someone I see and interact with often socially) is losing a professional license and faces complete loss of income and maybe jail. Already getting emails and calls to help the family financially, show support, etc.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the crime. My cousin was in an abusive and controlling relationship and got sucked into drugs and dealIng. Stole from family and friends, oded twice, had a friend died, etc. She went to jail for a year and sobered up. Finished college and is now happily married wiTh a great career

[Anonymous]

I have to laugh. I grew up with a good number of criminals, some are related to me, some are friends. Some of them I trust, some of them not. I was able to break away from the group because I went to college and rarely came home. I then moved out here to DC. When I go home to visit, I see them. They're actually really good to my mom who's elderly. Mom was always friendly to them, always fed them and always had a place for them to sleep/do their laundry. They do repairs on the house (many are in the construction industry), repair her car, etc. They also have their kids clean her driveway and cut her grass. Many of them still get high but not many are still engaged in criminal activity - other than things like insurance fraud, drug abuse, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to laugh. I grew up with a good number of criminals, some are related to me, some are friends. Some of them I trust, some of them not. I was able to break away from the group because I went to college and rarely came home. I then moved out here to DC. When I go home to visit, I see them. They're actually really good to my mom who's elderly. Mom was always friendly to them, always fed them and always had a place for them to sleep/do their laundry. They do repairs on the house (many are in the construction industry), repair her car, etc. They also have their kids clean her driveway and cut her grass. Many of them still get high but not many are still engaged in criminal activity - other than things like insurance fraud, drug abuse, etc.

+1 I grew up with many criminals, all the way down to murderers. They're not part of my daily life, but they have helped me immensely with my mom since my father passed. I now live 500 miles away and I know they check in on her and help out when things break around the house. Sure they all did a bad thing, but they were never bad to me or my family and I don't think they ever would be.

[Anonymous]

I have worked with several lawyers who served prison sentences when they were younger for drugs or manslaughter.

One of them is now a judge.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with several lawyers who served prison sentences when they were younger for drugs or manslaughter.

One of them is now a judge.

How is this possible?

[Anonymous]

Dwi is a crime so yes I know criminals.

Also, I live in Bethesda so I know tax evaders and people who are white collar criminals.

I know a drug dealer.

[Anonymous]

Everyone is friends with criminals. You just may not know it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with several lawyers who served prison sentences when they were younger for drugs or manslaughter.

One of them is now a judge.

How is this possible?

Why wouldn't it be possible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with several lawyers who served prison sentences when they were younger for drugs or manslaughter.

One of them is now a judge.

How is this possible?

Think Tim Allen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the crime. My cousin was in an abusive and controlling relationship and got sucked into drugs and dealIng. Stole from family and friends, oded twice, had a friend died, etc. She went to jail for a year and sobered up. Finished college and is now happily married wiTh a great career

Wow, who's the idiot who decided to marry your cousin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of them still get high

On what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with several lawyers who served prison sentences when they were younger for drugs or manslaughter.

One of them is now a judge.

How is this possible?

Think Tim Allen.

Tim Allen's not a judge, idiot.

Yes, I would also like to know how someone who served a prison sentence could end up a judge? Shit, Audrey Creighton is only fucking felons and she deserves to be disbarred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is friends with criminals. You just may not know it.

Or descendants of criminals, many of whom have committed crimes against humanity to get ahead and pass on ill gotten riches and privileges to their heirs.