I don't know if I ever recall seeing a CEO go to jail for practically anything, ever. I'm sure there are lots of examples, but at this point in my life I have kind of derived a rule of thumb of "if you want to commit a crime, just disguise it as a legitimate business" based off seeing so many times where CEOs get off scott free .
He went to jail because he refused to help the NSA violate FISA, and then he sold the stock knowing that his refusal would cause the stock to drop (i.e. insider trading). His conviction was entirely on the basis of insider trading. The SEC went after him, not the NSA or DOJ or whatever.
I don't know if I ever recall seeing a CEO go to jail for practically anything, ever. I'm sure there are lots of examples, but at this point in my life I have kind of derived a rule of thumb of "if you want to commit a crime, just disguise it as a legitimate business" based off seeing so many times where CEOs get off scott free .
FWIW, Joseph Nacchio (the CEO of Qwest Communications) went to jail for like a decade for refusing to help the NSA violate FISA circa 2001.
He went to jail because he refused to help the NSA violate FISA, and then he sold the stock knowing that his refusal would cause the stock to drop (i.e. insider trading). His conviction was entirely on the basis of insider trading. The SEC went after him, not the NSA or DOJ or whatever.
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Criminally charging Russian and Chinese does not work. The solution would be to drop these contries off the internet if we want to play hard.
The US cannot even stop NSO to hack the system with spyware and Israel is a political ally.
Most of ML training crawlers hitting my site come from USA. Should we drop USA too?
"US Out of North America!" -Ironic Protest T-Shirt and Graffiti (Social-Revolutionary Anarchist Federation) ;)
https://the-t-shirt-chronicles.com/2022/02/15/u-s-out-of/