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Because there are laws prohibiting exactly what he did. It's really that simple.

There are laws against doing a thing, he did the thing and got caught. Go to jail, do not cross Go, give back the $500,000.




>Because there are laws prohibiting exactly what he did. It's really that simple.

Ok, but that's just an appeal to authority, what's the moral grounding for those laws?

Of course lying and being deceitful for personal gain is wrong but why is it a criminal matter when an individual does it but a civil matter when a group does it?


> but a civil matter when a group does it?

Group also has decision makers who can be criminally prosecuted in case of some fraud committed.




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