No Timber that's not quite right. What SHOULD happen is the FTC and shareholders should have gone after them. People like this deserve to be in PRISON. Alongside the enron and wall-street guys. But alas not one of them are. Not one.

Just another way that an entirely different set of rules apply to the wealthy (who have the money to fight tooth and nail in court, if they ever get there) play not with a separate set of rules, but an entirely different GAME.

Thought experiment: what $$ in fraud should equal murder in terms of punishment? If you're a financial advisor and you bilk your clients out of $2M of their retirement, or $5M, or $10M. Does that rise to the degree that you'd punish a murderer? What $$ number is it for you?
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