• @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    4310 months ago

    For real, look at this shit

    "Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological. They are accused only of inflating asset values to make more money. The documents prove this over and over again. This is a venial sin, not a mortal sin. Defendants did not commit murder or arson. They did not rob a bank at gunpoint.

    “Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen,” really great to see how far we’ve come since that was written

    But I digress,

    Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways," Engoron wrote.

    “Defendants’ refusal to admit error — indeed, to continue it, according to the Independent Monitor — constrains this Court to conclude that they will engage in it going forward unless judicially restrained,” he added.

    The ruling also bars the Trump sons — who’ve been running the company since their father went to the White House — “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of two years.”

    So, yeah, I guess the headline was shitting you, because at best it’s going to be effectively a two year ban for this pack of pathologically remorseless creeps who the judge admits are definitely going to reoffend. Ain’t justice grand? /s

    • Flying Squid
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      2810 months ago

      Yeah, I really don’t think people should be celebrating this. This is practically giving people permission to cheat on their taxes considering they still came out on top in terms of profiting overall.

      • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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        1610 months ago

        I definitely understand wanting to celebrate, people have been waiting for this asshole to get what’s coming to him since at least 2016

        But yeah, this really isn’t the death blow it could/should have been

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      810 months ago

      Small New York business should protest and / or sue the courts for not fairly applying justice or something. I’m not a lawyer.