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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8885198" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>You may be right, this is very far from my expertise, but what I HAVE seen lawyers pull and get away with it because they could write a good summery brief and make a charismatic argument makes me personally think you under sell the odds.</p><p></p><p>Trying not to get into details that I can't give, I saw a lawyer get the owner of a company off, his and his wife's punishment was they had to sell the business' for over $100,000,000 and promise and sign they would never work or do business' in that field again. Mean while 7 employees got fined, and 2 of them did jail time for things that they were made to do under threat of firing and worse. Here comes the BIGGEST kick. they had 'hired' there kids (underage no less) and were giving them a hire salary then any other employee (other then there own) even though said kids never did a thing for the company, BUT they held titles that looked good. When the sentences came down some how even though these kids were 'in charge' and on paper the people doing some of these thing the other employees had to do and put the kids names on... the kids didn't get fined or any jail time... they got a warning.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, being right doesn't mean much in my book. One of the two that did jail time for stupid things (but they did have court appointed defenders) I ran into a few years later working overnight at a gas station, because that was the only job she could get. I tried to pull strings at one of the companies I work with to get her a job but that conviction was too much for me to get her past even when I pulled the hiring manager aside and told them (in much more detail) what happened.</p><p></p><p>There were these 2 kids (maybe 20 at the time maybe teens) that worked for a few months got pissed and quit... when the law finally caught up with the company and started all of this they didn't go back far enough to pick those two up... so I still today many years later imagine the two roads, the one where they had stayed and got hit by this and where they are now. I avoid looking them up I want to believe they are doing well.</p><p></p><p>edit: btw the company was in business doing this stuff since before I was born (not by much) and the owner and his wife were already talking about retirement before this started being in there 50's they felt they just needed a good win to leave on... then all of this and the over 100 mil sale I think they retired well... much better then anyone else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 8885198, member: 67338"] You may be right, this is very far from my expertise, but what I HAVE seen lawyers pull and get away with it because they could write a good summery brief and make a charismatic argument makes me personally think you under sell the odds. Trying not to get into details that I can't give, I saw a lawyer get the owner of a company off, his and his wife's punishment was they had to sell the business' for over $100,000,000 and promise and sign they would never work or do business' in that field again. Mean while 7 employees got fined, and 2 of them did jail time for things that they were made to do under threat of firing and worse. Here comes the BIGGEST kick. they had 'hired' there kids (underage no less) and were giving them a hire salary then any other employee (other then there own) even though said kids never did a thing for the company, BUT they held titles that looked good. When the sentences came down some how even though these kids were 'in charge' and on paper the people doing some of these thing the other employees had to do and put the kids names on... the kids didn't get fined or any jail time... they got a warning. So yeah, being right doesn't mean much in my book. One of the two that did jail time for stupid things (but they did have court appointed defenders) I ran into a few years later working overnight at a gas station, because that was the only job she could get. I tried to pull strings at one of the companies I work with to get her a job but that conviction was too much for me to get her past even when I pulled the hiring manager aside and told them (in much more detail) what happened. There were these 2 kids (maybe 20 at the time maybe teens) that worked for a few months got pissed and quit... when the law finally caught up with the company and started all of this they didn't go back far enough to pick those two up... so I still today many years later imagine the two roads, the one where they had stayed and got hit by this and where they are now. I avoid looking them up I want to believe they are doing well. edit: btw the company was in business doing this stuff since before I was born (not by much) and the owner and his wife were already talking about retirement before this started being in there 50's they felt they just needed a good win to leave on... then all of this and the over 100 mil sale I think they retired well... much better then anyone else. [/QUOTE]
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