• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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      No. The sentenced are simply cumulative:

      20 years per ECRA violation; 10 years per smuggling count; and 20 years per money laundering count

      …and they each are being accused of multiples of them. The argument for doing it like this is that even if they later get some of the charges dropped they will still stay in prison without the need to do any retrials etc to figure out how long it should now be.
      The massive downside is that you easily stack different violations like this and end up in jail for life.

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    more time in jail than child rapists or murderers for computer parts is fucking nuts

    no goddamn way on Satan’s Earth that would justify such a sentence

    how much computing power got smuggled out sounds trivial

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      Listen you can rape some kids and I’ll see you either in 20 yrs or in DC next election but if you fuck with capitalism, bucko it’s over 💀

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    Is this like drug bust math where it’s 1000 graphics cards at $3899 each