MatureDJ
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Evidently, the scales of justice are just as biased for securities fraud as they are for teachers sexually cavorting with students!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/business/shkreli-holmes-fraud.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/business/shkreli-holmes-fraud.html
... a jury ultimately found Mr. Shkreli guilty on three counts — acquitting him on five others — and this month he was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Ms. Holmes settled the S.E.C.’s charges without admitting or denying them. ... Though she lost voting control of Theranos, a private company, she remains chairman and chief executive.
"Typically you get more sympathy from the criminal justice system if you’re an attractive young woman than a brash, arrogant young male ...
my opinion: The Golden Vajaya!Judge Matsumoto said it didn’t matter that Mr. Shkreli later repaid the investors he defrauded, or that some of his investors made millions. Still, the magnitude of the fraud was just over $10 million.
Theranos’s was far greater. According to the S.E.C. complaint, from 2013 to 2015 Theranos used false claims to raise more than $700 million from investors. By late last year, Theranos was “on the verge of bankruptcy,” the S.E.C. said.
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