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The Madcap

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6. I guess it depends how treasonous you think huge financial crimes are.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Tue Jul 7, 2026, 03:21 PM

Yesterday

If you equate them with betraying your country and its people, I can see where such a sentence could be arrived at, as harsh as it is.

I wish our punishments for such crimes were way more severe than they are currently. Decades in prison plus full restitution should be just the starting point.

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