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The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B

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Re: The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B

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Have to admire the chutzpah to ask for leniency since stealing the bitcoins made the US government about three billion dollars by delaying the disposal of the bitcoins until they appreciated. He only had to serve one year after living it up for ten so not a bad trade off by some points of view.

Re: The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B

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Sad part was when the local police still didn’t solve the physical breakin and theft he was a victim of, but will get cut in on the proceeds from his crime the feds solved for them.

Also, how do you take all those security precautions but not have a lawyer on retainer?

Also, what kind of PI throws their client under the bus like that?

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Why is it the IRS Criminal Investigation group doing the investigation and not the FBI? I understand there may be some tax implications but I'd have thought they'd let the FBI figure it out and deal with the tax stuff after....??

Accountants make better investigators

Re: The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B

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Have to admire the chutzpah to ask for leniency since stealing the bitcoins made the US government about three billion dollars by delaying the disposal of the bitcoins until they appreciated. He only had to serve one year after living it up for ten so not a bad trade off by some points of view.

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Re: The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B

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Have to admire the chutzpah to ask for leniency since stealing the bitcoins made the US government about three billion dollars by delaying the disposal of the bitcoins until they appreciated. He only had to serve one year after living it up for ten so not a bad trade off by some points of view.

On the other hand, everyone who didn’t dare to come out and ask the government for those coins now knows jimmys name, so I doubt he is off the hook.

Re: The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B

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Have to admire the chutzpah to ask for leniency since stealing the bitcoins made the US government about three billion dollars by delaying the disposal of the bitcoins until they appreciated. He only had to serve one year after living it up for ten so not a bad trade off by some points of view.

White collar crimes. Meanwhile if you are a black man robbing a store you can be behind bars for 10 years.
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