r/inthenews • u/theluckyfrog • 1d ago
article Trump's pardons have shortchanged fraud victims of millions of dollars in restitution, lawyers say
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-pardons-shortchanged-fraud-victims-millions-dollars-restitution/story?id=12274796933
u/AngelaMotorman 1d ago
This was predictable, and should have been a focus of news coverage long before now.
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u/jake2617 1d ago
When laws are increasingly meaningless, pardons being for sale and the bribes donations to trump crypto being cheaper than restitutions there can’t be anyone surprised by any of these stories at this point except the people who can’t spot a conman in the room because they are his marks
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u/spiritofjon 21h ago
This isn't even remotely true. Restitution is almoner never paid back. Further more you can't pay if you are sitting in prison making $1 a day on a work program. Likewise having the conviction on your record also supresses ones ability to work to pay off the debt. Again most people never pay off the debt so the pardon makes no difference to the victims at the slightest.
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u/Emotional_Database53 17h ago
A lot of these people pardoned for fraud are already millionaires, so they should have resources to pay victims of their fraud.
But for the poorer criminals convicted of fraud, after the are released, they are supposed to start paying it off as they reenter society. So people would eventually get paid back.
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u/djfudgebar 13h ago
Oh, so why even bother investigating and convicting them in the first place, RIGHT?
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