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1/21/2012 4:55pm
This guy runs down a cyclist and get's busted for a hit and run after leaving the guy for dead at the side of the road. The judge won't prosecute him for a felony because he's afraid the guy might lose his job at Morgan Stanley.
Now here's the kicker. The guy he hit was a liver transplant surgeon.
So a banker's job is now more important to the courts than a transplant surgeon?
Fuck me.
Link to story
Just boot Obama out already and hand the keys to the country over to who really runs it. The guys at Goldman Sachs. At least it will be easier to know who to blame if they take the figurehead out of the equation.
Now here's the kicker. The guy he hit was a liver transplant surgeon.
So a banker's job is now more important to the courts than a transplant surgeon?
Fuck me.
Link to story
Just boot Obama out already and hand the keys to the country over to who really runs it. The guys at Goldman Sachs. At least it will be easier to know who to blame if they take the figurehead out of the equation.
"Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession, and that entered into it," Hurlbert said. "When you're talking about restitution, you don't want to take away his ability to pay."
The logic is that the guy isn't going to be able to pay medical bills for the victim without a job.
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln
(Full disclosure: I think I read somewhere that the first quote wasn't Jefferson, but I couldn't find it, and I could be confusing it with another quote, so there it is.)
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This now allows Dr Milo to seek compensation and damages in civil court and as long as Erzinger continues to make money while Milo cannot, it only strengthens Milo's case and reason for greater damages.
How is that equal justice for all?
This isn't civil court, this is criminal court. Ability to pay shouldn't be considered.
So here you have a guy who's getting off easy because they don't want him to lose his job. A job that requires a clean criminal record so that others will feel safe knowing that you don't allow criminals to hold positions of power over your finances. It's a double whammy! The guy has all the ethics of a Mexican drug lord and the courts, rather than do what's right, send him back to work. Right where he shouldn't be since he's a fucking criminal and they have the system in place to keep them out of that line of work.
What does that tell us? That it's OK to turn to crime as long as you do it after you get a high paying wall street job? That the protections in place in the financial industry are only there to be used for people who have a prior conviction and are seeking work? That once you get the job you can be as crooked as you want and the courts will protect you and your high paying job?
But to assume that the driver is going to get zero punishment is likely not accurate, seeing as that Milo will hire a lawyer on contingency, Erzinger is going to pay out the ass for his, then likely lose and then pay what will amount to judgements in the millions for lost wages, pain and suffering, legal fees and more.....Erzinger's life and lifestyle will most surely be impacted on a large scale.
Erzinger's punishment will be to damage or take away the life and lifestyle he's become accustomed to.
"Mr. Erzinger struck me, fled and left me for dead on the highway," Milo wrote. "Neither his financial prominence nor my financial situation should be factors in your prosecution of this case."
So do I understand correctly that you guys think it's OK to let a guy off on a crime as long as he can afford to pay monetarily for what he's done? Even when it's opposed by the victim? How much will it cost me if I want to burn down my neighbors house with them inside? It's the same kind of wanton disregard for human life. Do I need to work on wall street or just be rich?
You guys now have the banana republic you deserve.
The asshole should pay, period
Either through jail or financially or both
My son was just doing an English assignment about poverty in South America, and I told him that the history of the human race was that a small number of people always wind up controlling all the wealth and power unless there are specific socio-political structures in place to prevent it. The systems that were put into place in our country to prevent it are being ignored and bypassed, and the predictible result is that a smaller and smaller number of people control all the power and all the wealth. Turn out the lights, the party's over...
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