American Legal System Works If You Have Money
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American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 10 The affluenza defense Ethan Couch killed 4 people drunk driving psychologist argued wealth prevented
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2013, a Texas psychologist testified under oath that 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who killed four people while driving drunk, suffered from "affluenza…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 09 Harvey Weinsteins first decade lawyers NDAs and a private intelligence firm called Black Cube kept v
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2017, when The New York Times and The New Yorker published investigations into Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual misconduct, they revealed that…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 08 Epstein deal 2008 Alexander Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein a non-prosecution agreement that federal pro
THE EPSTEIN DEAL: HOW A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR SIGNED AWAY THE RIGHT TO CHARGE A SEX TRAFFICKER THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2007, federal prosecutors in Florida identified 36 und…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 07 Bankruptcy Chapter 11 vs Chapter 7 corporations restructure and survive individuals liquidate and lo
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2020, Hertz Global Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $25 billion in debt—yet its CEO, Paul Stone, received a $700,000 bonus three mont…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 06 The carried interest loophole hedge fund managers pay 20 percent tax on income their assistants pay
THE CARRIED INTEREST LOOPHOLE: HOW HEDGE FUND MANAGERS PAY LESS TAX THAN THEIR ASSISTANTS THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2022, the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers in the …
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 05 Corporate deferred prosecution agreements companies pay fines instead of facing trial individuals in
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2012, HSBC admitted to laundering at least $881 million for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels—including the Sinaloa Cartel, which the U.S. govern…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 04 Civil asset forfeiture police can seize your property without charging you with a crime you must pro
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that between 2007 and 2016, federal law enforcement agencies seized $28 billion in …
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 03 Plea bargaining - 97 percent of federal convictions are plea deals innocence is not a defense against
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the United States federal court system, 97% of convictions are secured not by trial but by plea bargains—agreements in which defendants admit guil…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 02 Public defenders - Average federal public defender carries 150 cases simultaneously
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2022, the average federal public defender in the United States carried 150 active cases at once—five times the caseload of a private attorney, who…
American Legal System Works If You Have Money: 01 Bail system - 450000 Americans in jail right now who have not been convicted of anything only crime is
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET On any given night in the United States, 450,000 people sit in jail cells not because they have been convicted of a crime, but because they cannot af…