• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    For this to be criminal it’d probably require intent to be proven which is difficult without a “smoking gun” of an email being like “do this to avoid taxes or be fired”- CEO. For it just to be civil fines is a lot simpler to show. Their inevitable appeal and potential reduction in fine is a different issue.

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      3 months ago

      Of course they have intent. That’s not an issue at all. They’re trying to avoid taxes, which is in itself legal, and they aren’t denying that. Their theory is that the IRS is doing the math wrong.

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      3 months ago

      16 billion dollars of money laundering isn’t an “honest mistake”…. criminal intent abounds