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Fri 5 Jun, 2015 03:02 pm
I was mostly OK with the concept of Hastert cutting out the state and trying to work to make his victim whole by giving him money so long as he volunteered, but now that I know that the money went to the sister of the victim, and that the victim is dead, I want her prosecuted to the full extent of the law if she was involved in blackmail and/or if she did not report the income to the IRS. If we are so down the well of victim culture that she gets a walk for her wrong doing then we are in even more trouble than I though.
what say you?
@hawkeye10,
Says Toobin
Quote:In short, the prosecution of Hastert shows that the fundamental purposes of the C.T.R. requirement are being served. Law-abiding individuals who work with large amounts of cash accommodate the requirement without any problems. Others who are using cash for suspicious, if not exactly illegal, purposes are legitimate targets for inquiry and, if they’ve deliberately tried to avoid the law’s requirements, for prosecution—especially if they then lie to the FBI about it. The precise contours of Hastert’s relationship with Individual A remain mysterious, but his legal ordeal is easily understood and, it seems, richly deserved.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-legal-logic-of-the-case-against-hastert
Now that all depends, are we now going to prosecute people who break the law with a gun to their head? Was there blackmail here? We need to know, Hastert owes we the people the truth.
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