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Originally Posted by shmike
There was a similar story of a high-paid broker out west recently (Cali maybe?).
Same basic argument: "I can't go to jail, I have to make money to pay them."
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Funny, but I tend to think that liquidation of current assets would go a long way towards providing restitution, while in no way restricting a term in prison.
I heard a guy, who was acting as a fence for stolen computer equipment, make a similar claim to a judge. It was the 3rd or 4th time that I'd been to court as a witness, in the case, and the 5th or 6th hearing. He'd gone through 5 lawyers, as a delaying tactic. He said that a conviction would remove his ability to travel to the US, on purchasing trips, and asked that the conviction be set aside. He claimed that it would impact his family, who had done nothing wrong. The judge (who I praise to this day) simply said, "You should have thought about the ramifications of your actions, before you took them. Two years."