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May? Stop edging me!
It’s the problem with all these delays. The system is slow and if you try to step outside the system, you’re likely breaking the law. They now need to give time to the bond issuer to resolve the issues with the bond.
The system is only THIS slow when you have tons of money and privilege to throw at it. A regular person who committed that degree of fraud that obviously would have been tried in CRIMINAL court and would already be in jail with all possible appeals exhausted.
If you’re a rich (or have enough money/property that the system doesn’t care that your debt takes you into negative net worth), white (or orange) cishet man and politically connected, the whole system is constructed to protect people like you from the consequences of fucking over everyone else.
Yeah, I know. Doesn’t change that that’s how the system is designed. If you break the rules, there goes the charges. If they use their money to indefinitely delay, well that’s just playing the game.
Any one of us would have been jailed and forgotten about a year ago for anything even remotely similar.
I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s more likely that the appeals court will lower the bond to $50 million and give him 30 more days to post it.