A big difference between that and the original story is that Hogan and Dunning defrauded a single entity out of millions of dollars, which of course gives that single entity a strong incentive to sic auditors and private investigators on the fraudsters and push for an indictment.
Also, the US legal system takes very seriously it role in setting precedents and has a strong commitment to following precedents -- specifically to make the law more predictable to folks like us. There're probably a lot of preceding criminal cases around affiliate-marketing fraud, and none for the kind of shenanigans attributed in these comments to AirBnB.
Also, the US legal system takes very seriously it role in setting precedents and has a strong commitment to following precedents -- specifically to make the law more predictable to folks like us. There're probably a lot of preceding criminal cases around affiliate-marketing fraud, and none for the kind of shenanigans attributed in these comments to AirBnB.