He is a much bigger "prize" for the prosecution. She had low profile and not all that well known to the electorate. Plus, prosecuting her may not even look all that good, for identity politics reasons. If she cooperated first, there is a good chance of immunity or very low sentence.
> Plus, prosecuting her may not even look all that good, for identity politics reasons.
Strongly disagree with this. Look at how they threw the book at Elizabeth Holmes (vs, say, Adam Neumann, or any other male founder from the last decade plus). If anything women have been getting it harder.
> Strongly disagree with this. Look at how they threw the book at Elizabeth Holmes (vs, say, Adam Neumann, or any other male founder from the last decade plus).
There are plenty of male founders who got popped for fraud. Trevor Milton (of Nikola infamy) is an easy one that comes to mind.
Adam Neumann did not even commit a crime. The only "crime" he committed was being such a great salesperson to VCs and getting a ridiculous valuation from them. This comparison is ridiculous.
IIRC Adam Neumann’s infraction was owning many of the properties leased to WeWork for above market prices. IANAL but that’s not a crime as long as he was upfront with investors about it, even if they never bothered to read that page of due diligence.
Before filing for bankrupcy, she was the Queen of Crypto - "Is Caroline Single - we would have the best Crypto babies". Turned quickly to "she is ugly" when she wasnt a billionaire CEO of the biggest crypto hedge fund in the world.
Crypto men can add speed running traditional finance gold digging to the list of accomplishments.
Neumann scammed chump investors out of a bunch of money in ways that were legal, but would have been illegal at a publicly traded company.
For example, selling some of his wework shares, buying office buildings, then leasing the buildings back to wework at above-market rates. Registering the 'We' trademark for himself then selling it to wework. That would be illegal due to being a conflict of interest, were the company publicly traded - but it wasn't.
(There was also drug use and sexual assault claims)
