I really don't understand why financial crimes seem to be unique in terms of ignorance being

[dsc]

an excuse. To take an example, say you have a 20 year old who has sex with a person he believes is 16 in a state where the age of consent is 16. Instead the person is 15. Now he might get a lesser sentence due to a Romeo and Juliet exception but he will be found guilty. He can't use ignorance of the age of his partner as an excuse.

If a driver moves to a place where school is year round and speeds in a school zone in June, he can't plead ignorance to avoid the ticket or points on his license.

So why can a person file two documents about a building in which he values the building at $500,000,000 in one and $30,000,000 in the other, with no possible explanation for that difference, and argue he was ignorant? In the first two examples, the thing speaks for itself. Why not here?

[Sherman A1]

1. Simple

It is because a person that owns a building valued at $500,000,000 or $30,000,000 has lots of money and hence live in a world where the rules that the rest of us live by do not apply to them.

[doc03]

2. There are two sets of justice one for us and one for the rich nt

[lame54]

3. Because the guys with the $500,000,000...

Write the laws

[Ohio Joe]

4. As best I understand it

You have a large number of people in the organization and you must be able to prove in court that a specific person knew a specific thing. In the case of tfg they did so much verbally, not through email, you need a reliable witness to make the criminal case against him… They simply do not have one.

So they can prove prices were inflated/deflated but not who was behind it.

[doc03]

5. I read in a financial book many years ago "There is more theft each day on Wall Street

than at gun point in an entire year"

[onecaliberal]

6. Ignorance of the law is not a defense. But If youre

A white rich male you can do whatever the fuck you want. That why this county is bullshit. There is no equality, and A LOT of people ARE above the law.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Money walks.