Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

Post by sokoloff » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

ABCLAW wrote: post #187

mshumi wrote: post #84

One has to wonder what legal frauds, asset grabs, and impersonations have transpired that were never discovered. Some perspective on this is the story of Alves dos Reis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves_dos_Reis ) who in 1924 stole ~1% of Portugal's GDP in bank notes printed under forged orders. The scheme may have never been uncovered had Reis succeeded in maintaining a controlling interest in the Bank of Portug…

Part of my practice is financial fraud investigation. >One has to wonder what legal frauds, asset grabs, and impersonations have transpired that were never discovered. A lot. More than you'd expect. And by people and organizations you wouldn't expect. However, most people are objectively terrible at performing fraud. The things that ultimately lead to people being caught are so simple.

Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 1:03 AM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #209

dyingkneepad wrote: post #188

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> It took me ages to realise that butlers aren’t naturally villainous, but rather were expected to take the fall for any malfeasance committed by the family. I just realized that in Oct 28th, 2020. Thanks for that.

This might or might not be true, but it's not the origin of "the butler did it". The origin of the phrase is in the classical detective story trope.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

kbenson wrote: post #167

drpgq wrote: post #149

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Jeez I’m wondering what the going price would be for that today.

I've seen reports that it's somewhat common for the rich in China[1], so there might be some info on what it costs there, and maybe some extrapolation could be made. Either the "serve prison in lieu of me" or "say you were the one that committed the crime" version. There are weird perverse incentives at play in some of the laws of criminal justice system in China.[2] 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339051 2:…

Post by mensetmanusman » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

friendlybus wrote: post #215

mensetmanusman wrote: post #178

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That is a common misunderstanding of canonical Catholic teaching about "indulgentia a culpa et a poena". Keeping the carbon offset analogy, an indulgence in the Catholic sense would be more akin to first making sure you are carbon neutral (all parties are at peace and forgiven/reconciled), then you spend %10 of your salary to go beyond that and offset the carbon credits of the person you wronged.

Until Teztel started selling carbon offsets for dead polluters. An offered coin springs a dead soul from purgatory.

Post by phobosanomaly » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

will_pseudonym wrote: post #190

bavila wrote: post #174

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> I guess this brings up and interesting issue -- once someone knows the ins and outs of a system, sometimes there are very few barriers internally to check that an order/paperwork is legit. I used to work as a criminal defense attorney, and the job regularly required that I obtain subpoenas from the court in order to mandate a witness's appearance at court. My state courts have a template that subpoenas must follow,…

> I don't think there's a ton of value someone could get out of obtaining a fake subpoena (other than perhaps issuing your own self a subpoena as an excuse to get out of work, or maybe just to screw with someone) That would make a great plot for George on Seinfeld.