Re: E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions

"nicholas a. evans" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't have any hopes whatsoever that these guys will serve jail time.
> Most likely there will be a settlement for pennies on the dollar.  Fraud
> is just another business model these days.  The crime pays far more than
> any actual penalty imposed by regulators.

I do read through all of your emails on financial system fraud, even
though I rarely have anything to add.  I was trying to think of other
examples of "fraud as a successful business model" except on a smaller
scale than the banksters, and two examples immediately sprung to mind:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-cancel-aol and
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094155/.  Any more?  :)

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Nick

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