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What's the point of being a wagey or running a legal business again?

>Four family members belonging to a Utah polygamist group admitted defrauding the U.S. of $512 million in renewable-fuel tax credits, with the leader saying the mastermind was an Armenian immigrant who owns a small oil and gas empire in Southern California. That businessman now faces trial alone.

>The leader, Jacob Kingston, who was the chief executive officer of Washakie Renewable Energy LLC, pleaded guilty July 18 in federal court in Salt Lake City. He said his company falsely claimed that it produced or blended biodiesel fuel to qualify for tax credits. He also admitted laundering more than $100 million in fraud proceeds in Turkey, obstructing justice and tampering with witnesses.

>Kingston is a member of the Davis County Cooperative Society, which is known as the Order and is one of the largest Mormon polygamist clans in the U.S. In agreeing to pay back the $512 million, the Kingstons will forfeit their WRE plant along the Utah-Idaho border, dozens of properties in Utah and Turkey, several luxury cars and various bank accounts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-22/polygamists-admit-biofuel-fraud-as-armenian-american-faces-trial

>> No.15733983

I'd say that's the point, the US government will catch you and throw you in prison

>> No.15733990

>>15733983
What if they just stopped at 50 million instead of 500?

>> No.15734002

>>15733990
greedy people don't stop at anything, it's why they break the law in the first place

>> No.15734018

>>15734002
How would you know, couldn't people be doing it right now or have done it and stopped and simply never gotten caught so there's no news story about them?

That's like saying all murderers get caught because you saw it on the news.

>> No.15734047

>>15734018
ok then, try your luck against the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world

>> No.15734070

>>15734047
I don't live in the united states though and most of those are black people who steal(physically) and sell drugs

>> No.15734077

>>15734070
fine, then why are you posting US news, go cheat your country instead of posting here

>> No.15734355

>>15734077
just thought it was an interesting story