• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    She pled out in a RICO case. It’s standard for the first ones to flip to get sweetheart deals. Powell and Chesebro also got off easy. It’s to incentivize small fish to flip early on the big fish to bolster the case.

    Does it satisfy our collective justice boners? No. This is pretty SOP though.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yup exactly. The goal is to get her to flip with a sweetheart deal, because now she’s forced to testify against everyone else involved. Either she testifies, or the deal gets ripped out from underneath her and she goes down with the rest of them.