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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There's a (now defunct) website called Hindenburg Investments that specialized in Short Selling companies they research, dig up criminal misconduct on, and then report to the SEC/FBI/etc.

The last report they released was on PACS, a company that was caught swindling Medicaid to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

After Trump won the election, I took a gamble on "Scams and Frauds" investing and picked up 1000 shares in this heavily depressed company. Trumps' admin effectively dropped the investigation and charges on the firm, causing its stock price to triple.

Just something for the savvy investor to look out for in the future.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you funded criminals and now you're trying to convince others to fund criminal enterprises too?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. And then dupe idiots into funding me 3x what I paid to fund the criminals originally.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't be a criminal if nobody is getting prosecuted.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Of course it can.

Most US presidents are war criminals, even if they haven't been prosecuted for war crimes.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hernandez may not appear as a typical white-collar criminal, given that he was a head of state.

Wow, this author is clearly not familiar with white collar criminals in Latin America.

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

I'm sure it was a better than average year for them. But it's pretty much always a good year to be a white collar criminal

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

victims of the violence linked to those financial flows. Among them were the families of US citizens killed on 7 October

Damn, this is a fucked up intro, Guardian.

The victims of the genocide in Gaza are Palestinians, who were murdered with bombs paid for with US tax dollars. No laundering was done for the funding of the Israeli terrorists who slaughter Palestinian children

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And violent white male criminals too; don't forget about the child fuckers.

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Domestic abusers are living the dream right now, setting themselves up to live in this new, permanent, bullshit filter of 1982 we all live in

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago
[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

I’m not surprised, but I can’t say much has changed. Maybe a better than average year, but it’s not like they’re held accountable for much anyway.