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Anonymous wrote:A former law partner from Illinois, Paul Daugerdas, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters — at a cost to the government of more than $1.63 billion. The scheme generated over $7 billion of fraudulent deductions, according to prosecutors. His law firm agreed to pay a $76 million penalty. Prosecutors called Daugerdas “the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history,” while a judge described the case as “the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever,” according to Forbes. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014; Biden commuted his sentence.

Seriously?

Supporters of Biden and the Democrats, can you explain? What is going on here?

The only explanation is some kind of money transfer to the Biden clan.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats silent on Biden’s reprehensible actions. Figures.

? lots of D posters on here not happy about it.

Anonymous wrote:Democrats silent on Biden’s reprehensible actions. Figures.

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Anonymous wrote:This was really bad. I can't believe that nobody on his staff vetted those names. Just a massive own goal.

What are you talking about??

This was apparently done as a kind of bulk operation. So nobody vetted the names, which is a massive failure.

Up and down the chain. How many people pushed this, processed it and approved it? Yet, none of them checked the names. WTF

So far the list includes this PA judge, someone with child porn, a local government official that stole over $50 million, and a college booster that ran a $1 billion ponzi scheme.

This is what the prison abolitionists want, though, and he did what they asked. So if prison is abolished, people like this get freed.

This was a gift to the extreme progressives

This whole fiasco is the Biden administration in a nutshell. The ACLU apparently was the group that had proposed this mass commutation and provided the Biden administration the criteria. The Biden administration then just adopted this progressive policy without scrutiny or due diligence. And they just ended up poorly and incompetently implementing a deeply flawed and unpopular policy promoted by progressive groups.

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Anonymous wrote:A former law partner from Illinois, Paul Daugerdas, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters — at a cost to the government of more than $1.63 billion. The scheme generated over $7 billion of fraudulent deductions, according to prosecutors. His law firm agreed to pay a $76 million penalty. Prosecutors called Daugerdas “the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history,” while a judge described the case as “the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever,” according to Forbes. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014; Biden commuted his sentence.

Seriously?

Supporters of Biden and the Democrats, can you explain? What is going on here?

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Anonymous wrote:If there is any pattern here, it seems to be that a number of these cases involve people who served about 70% of their sentences (85% is the typical threshold for release in federal prisons) and were over 70 years old and/or had significant health issues.

I worked in white collar crime for a number of years and after COVID, saw a number of hard fought cases end with the defendant’s sentence being commuted. It’s frustrating but in many cases, these people served over a decade with good behavior and had medical issues that prison system is neither equipped to deal with nor do they have the cost to do so. It’s referred to as a compassionate release, but in my opinion the objective is to prevent the prison system from being responsible, or worse, liable, for these individuals.

So, in other words, compassionate release is for rich people.

Not sure how you got to that conclusion. Most people who go to jail for that long are stripped of all their income prospects and their assets are seized for restitution. If these people are old or infirm on top of that, their outcome is pretty bleak and they need a family member or friend who is willing to provide housing and other assistance.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there is any pattern here, it seems to be that a number of these cases involve people who served about 70% of their sentences (85% is the typical threshold for release in federal prisons) and were over 70 years old and/or had significant health issues.

I worked in white collar crime for a number of years and after COVID, saw a number of hard fought cases end with the defendant’s sentence being commuted. It’s frustrating but in many cases, these people served over a decade with good behavior and had medical issues that prison system is neither equipped to deal with nor do they have the cost to do so. It’s referred to as a compassionate release, but in my opinion the objective is to prevent the prison system from being responsible, or worse, liable, for these individuals.

So, in other words, compassionate release is for rich people.

Not sure how you got to that conclusion. Most people who go to jail for that long are stripped of all their income prospects and their assets are seized for restitution. If these people are old or infirm on top of that, their outcome is pretty bleak and they need a family member or friend who is willing to provide housing and other assistance.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is any pattern here, it seems to be that a number of these cases involve people who served about 70% of their sentences (85% is the typical threshold for release in federal prisons) and were over 70 years old and/or had significant health issues.

I worked in white collar crime for a number of years and after COVID, saw a number of hard fought cases end with the defendant’s sentence being commuted. It’s frustrating but in many cases, these people served over a decade with good behavior and had medical issues that prison system is neither equipped to deal with nor do they have the cost to do so. It’s referred to as a compassionate release, but in my opinion the objective is to prevent the prison system from being responsible, or worse, liable, for these individuals.

So, in other words, compassionate release is for rich people.

Anonymous wrote:If there is any pattern here, it seems to be that a number of these cases involve people who served about 70% of their sentences (85% is the typical threshold for release in federal prisons) and were over 70 years old and/or had significant health issues.

I worked in white collar crime for a number of years and after COVID, saw a number of hard fought cases end with the defendant’s sentence being commuted. It’s frustrating but in many cases, these people served over a decade with good behavior and had medical issues that prison system is neither equipped to deal with nor do they have the cost to do so. It’s referred to as a compassionate release, but in my opinion the objective is to prevent the prison system from being responsible, or worse, liable, for these individuals.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:A former law partner from Illinois, Paul Daugerdas, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters — at a cost to the government of more than $1.63 billion. The scheme generated over $7 billion of fraudulent deductions, according to prosecutors. His law firm agreed to pay a $76 million penalty. Prosecutors called Daugerdas “the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history,” while a judge described the case as “the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever,” according to Forbes. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014; Biden commuted his sentence.

Seriously?

Supporters of Biden and the Democrats, can you explain? What is going on here?

There is no explanation beyond this being ideologically driven political malpractice.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember this when Dems try to claim they're morally superior.

Biden is releasing all sorts of horrible criminals.

When you look at the crimes these people committed, the only injustice is that these are legally considered “non-violent” criminals when the facts are that these evil people inflicted all sorts of violence upon their victims.

It’s frightening how quickly the Democratic Party has moved down the slippery slope from giving second chances to people who maybe never had a chance in life to defending the release of the most evil affluent white collar criminals back into society.

Exactly. This clemency list is a gift to rich criminals, probably tied with some kind of corruption.

It is so weird how the Democrats have just embraced rich elitism as a political platform.

Joe Biden has completely trashed the Democratic Party brand.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A former law partner from Illinois, Paul Daugerdas, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters — at a cost to the government of more than $1.63 billion. The scheme generated over $7 billion of fraudulent deductions, according to prosecutors. His law firm agreed to pay a $76 million penalty. Prosecutors called Daugerdas “the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history,” while a judge described the case as “the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever,” according to Forbes. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014; Biden commuted his sentence.

Seriously?

Supporters of Biden and the Democrats, can you explain? What is going on here?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember this when Dems try to claim they're morally superior.

Biden is releasing all sorts of horrible criminals.

When you look at the crimes these people committed, the only injustice is that these are legally considered “non-violent” criminals when the facts are that these evil people inflicted all sorts of violence upon their victims.

It’s frightening how quickly the Democratic Party has moved down the slippery slope from giving second chances to people who maybe never had a chance in life to defending the release of the most evil affluent white collar criminals back into society.

Exactly. This clemency list is a gift to rich criminals, probably tied with some kind of corruption.

It is so weird how the Democrats have just embraced rich elitism as a political platform.