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A sentence of X is a sentence of X regardless of what charge you're convicted on.

Dig up a massive amount of dirt and sift through it until you find something that has the kind of sentence you're looking for and you can easily make a conviction on (regardless of whether or not it has anything to do with the crime at hand) is prosecuting crimes 101.

Martha Stewart, Bill Clinton, Al Capone, etc, etc.

Now, this is a crappy solution because it basically relies on the proliferation of criminal law and catch-all laws (both of which are bad IMO) and the fact that given any random thirteen people you can convince twelve of them that the thirteenth is a criminal if you have enough information about the 13th. Ideally charges would be related to the crime but that's not a practical strategy for prosecuting well connected defendants at present.




True… a scumbag in one area wouldn’t hesitate extending their scumbaggery skills to other areas if they stand to gain something.




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