Why hasn't this gotten more press? I realize it's a new story but when you Google his name the first thing that comes up is his disgusting LinkedIn page. Hoping this seriously disrupts his life. Because that would serve him right. What a sociopath.
Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Putting him in prison costs us - the taxpayers - money. Deporting him doesn't.
He's a criminal, and criminals should go to jail. Only after release they should be deported. Cost is not the issue. The issue is letting criminals go unpunished, because their only sentence is getting a free ride back to their country (which, btw, is also paid by taxpayers dollars).
>>He's a criminal, and criminals should go to jail. Only after release they should be deported.
That's not how it works. We deport illegal aliens instead of putting them in prison, despite the fact that they broke the law. The reason is obvious.
>>The issue is letting criminals go unpunished, because their only sentence is getting a free ride back to their country (which, btw, is also paid by taxpayers dollars).
The cost of the plane ticket simply pales in comparison to housing and feeding him over the course of many years.
Besides, the US has treaties with most countries whereby deported criminals serve prison sentences in their home countries. I can assure you prisons in India are not very comfortable...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? He will just go be a rich asshole in India, we should take his money and than deport him.
He needs to be in Jail. I would highly recommend reading the entire article. This guy seems like a psychopath. He put that woman through hell.
If he is a psychopath, why not provide him some psychiatry?
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#44we need to deport people like this
Prison for a serious felony first, then deported with a lifetime bar to entering the US.
If we have the right treaty with India, let him serve the prison sentence in an Indian prison instead, though.
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#45I uprooted this not because I think any of us should take purist interest in the tragic events of someone else's life. The article is interesting on many levels. This how an abuser works, subtly and forcefully both. The dialogue is also bizarre in that it focuses on technical details as a vehicle (and would be almost incomprehensible 10 years ago. It shows how the justice system works at the retail ("end user") level…
The stereotypical wife beater is an unemployed alcoholic white man who wears a ketchup-stained wifebeater (hence the nickname) and lives a trailer park. They're not loaded senior execs/CEOs running large companies in Palo Alto, which is one of the richest cities in the entire US.
And of course, if someone conforming to the stereotype were to find themselves in court facing identical charges, they would not be walking away with a slap on the wrist...
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#46Why hasn't this gotten more press? I realize it's a new story but when you Google his name the first thing that comes up is his disgusting LinkedIn page. Hoping this seriously disrupts his life. Because that would serve him right. What a sociopath.
It will. Felony convictions will torpedo virtually any career.
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#47What he did is really shitty, but is this article appropriate for HN? This feels much more like smut than articles I am used to seeing here.
I'm disturbed seeing this article as well, but if the tech industry is going to face the facts, this needs to be upvoted.
Gamergate?
Uber's woes?
It's indicative of a larger problem.
I would prefer less commentary and more call to action in the discussion, but that's just me. This is happening right in Santa Clara! Call the "Santa Clara Hall of Justice!" This is local government, tell them how you feel.
(Yes, the number is on the web.)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reported statistics on domestic violence are lower in India than in the US. I understand that "reported" isn't necessarily relative to actual.
When spousal rape is legal, there probably isn't anyone to "report" domestic violence to.
I wasn't trying to portray India as a great example. I wasn't comfortable though, with the US being portrayed as one either.
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#49even the trivial jail time of 30 days is not what he'll actually serve--that's apparently only 13 days.
towards the end of the article:
"The parties had apparently decided to knock the two days off what was effectively a 15-day jail sentence, making it 13 for Gattani. And Gattani would be allowed to serve the weekends first, in accordance with his preference."
(the "two days" refers to portions of two consecutive days Gattani spent in jail immediately after his arrest.)
the sentence is of course based on the crime he was charged with--but he crime he was charged with was not "felony assault", instead it was watered down to avoid any chance that he'll be deported.
But to 36-year-old Rastogi’s dismay, the top charge against Abhishek was reduced from felony assault to felony accessory after the fact, with an accompanying misdemeanor of “offensive touching.”
so those nine or so loud whacks heard in the audio recording--the sound of Gattani hitting his wife on the side of the head with a closed fist--were just "offensive touching"
and the "accessory after the fact" is just bizarre. Gattani wasn't an accessory to the assault, he was the assailant--the only one!
The particular type of accessory--"after the fact"--refers to someone who did not even participate in the primary offense, but was only involved after it was committed (eg, usually invoked when someone conceals or destroys evidence of the crime).
and even to that Alice-in-Wonderland charge, Gattani only had to plead "no contest"; apparently he wasn't required to plead "guilty" to get the benefit of the plea bargain.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's a data point: 57% of a survey of young men in India said it's OK to beat your wife. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-25/india... The equivalent figure in the US is 10%. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/03/18/39286028...
Men in India are far different than Indian men in America though. Indian men in America have the lowest crime rates by an order of magnitude in all facets, are the wealthiest, possess the highest percentage of college degrees etc. You're seeing the best and the brightest with a few scum that slip through the cracks. There are tens of millions of people in India especially in villages that force marry children and do…
You may be right; Indian Americans will probably be closer to American norms than Indians.