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Hey, I have a crazy idea. Let's prosecute these white collar types with equal or greater zeal than we do the guy caught with a quarter-ounce of weed.

Maybe not. Everyone knows those layabouts don't contribute to society the way this guy with the senior vice president job does.

Lighten up, dude. They do slam these guys harder than they do folks caught with a dime bag. The head of Refco, which used to be the biggest futures trading company in the US, just got 16 big ones for fraud.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Thomas Coughlin, dude.

It would be useful to see a sentencing comparison for white collar vs street crime.

my comp is blinking out today so I won't search it.

I'd imagine that Home Bancshares wil have to cede the moral highground in their current advertising about how "sound and safe and sage" they are for depositors, trying to capitlaize on the recently reported miss-steps of some other local bank. Maybe, dunno, they just might want to convene the marketing committee tomorrow and consider changing that up a bit. While they were busy being all so self righteous and conservative and pruident with far sighted loan making they let their guard down inside their own vault sort fo speak.

You just have to watch those worst case scenarios when you sign off on the campaign. Wonder if Pulaski Bank will continue to run their same campaign. You know bad things come in threes and that Lousianna mojo superstition may get them to wondering.

eewwwhhhh! Not good. In the top 6 of the management group and a member of the old bank.

whats the sccop on the Geels?? anyone have any clues?

I'm thinking more along the lines of Thomas Coughlin, dude

Well, why didn't you say so, instead of lumping them all together as "these white-collar types"? Raging against the machine is one thing; saying a specific miscarriage of justice is the common method or resolution is another.

Okay...not all white collar types should be prosecuted--only the ones who embezzle. Guys caught with a little grass should not be. Our prisons are full of the latter.

you tell em Mr. Hugh Mann. didn't we read a post about an 80yo who gets 70yrs!!
What's will happen to the chenal lawyer whose house was set on fire?? the list goes on and on.

Steal a little and they call you a thief. Steal a lot and they make you a king. - Bob Dylan

He'll probably have to wear an ankle bracelet and watch Judge Judy all day for a few months.

Aw, Hugh Mann, embezzelers gotta be given the chance to pay back the money to the insurance and bonding companies. Entirely appropriate that they be given probation.
In round numbers, say you made off with a measly $100,000 and got caught. What could be more appropriate than that you be given probation so long you agree to repay the money at about, oh say, $500 a month for 16 or 17 years -- which adds up to just about a hundred grand.
Now why anyone would snort and point out that in effect you got a $100,000 loan you can repay at no interest . . .
Don't you just love common sense justice?