On: The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fr...

[kemotep → jbverschoor]

Are you implying if I buy ads to promote your candidacy using illegal funds that the election you won is illegitimate?

How would we go about enforcing that?

[jbverschoor → kemotep]

That’s what banks do with normal people or small businesses. Source of capital, AML etc

[kemotep → jbverschoor]

Do you have evidence of banks stealing money from depositors and not being prosecuted?

We are in a comment section of an announcement of charges against a CEO of a “bank” that did such and will face a lifetime in prison if convicted. Every example of a bank stealing from depositors I can find has people facing consequences. I guess that we would not hear about instances of people getting away with their crimes but that would make it not wide spread and rare or your claim unprovable due to a lack of evidence.

[schnable → jbverschoor]

Opponents of politicians who took the money opponents will use it against them in future elections. Maybe some will return the money to attempt to defect that attack.

[thiscatis → jbverschoor]

Nothing because the last one also didn’t face issues. And the one before… You catch my drift.

[batmenace → jbverschoor]

It's quite possible that as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, some/ all of the donations could be clawed back

[thereddaikon → jbverschoor]

Nothing. I'm surprised they actually stuck him with that one.

[outside1234 → jbverschoor]

The Republican donations might be worse - since he tried to do them illegally it sounds like - and someone might have knowingly accepted them.

The solution is to have very low maximum donation to a campaign ($50?) and no corporate donations.