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ILikeMyGrassBlue t1_j9pu3bo wrote

Reply to comment by wildbill88 in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried indicted on new criminal charges, including campaign finance violations | CNN Business by spatenfloot

They do it legally, for the most part. Bribery of politicians is basically legal in the US, if you go through the right channels. You have to be astoundingly stupid to commit a campaign finance violation. There’s literally a legal way to do it, which is why most politicians/rich fucks don’t get caught for it—they do it legally. Just goes to show how dumb this guy is.

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sedition- t1_j9qtiir wrote

Reminds me of that stupid sitcom lady that jumped through all those hoops to get her moron daughter into college, when all she needed to do was write a fat check to the school in the form of a donation instead of breaking like a dozen different laws by doing it her way.

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donny02 t1_j9qwsw6 wrote

Yeah but the gap between her checks and donation checks are a few zeros apart.

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gnitiwrdrawkcab t1_j9r4j7s wrote

Exactly. Felicity Huffman had just enough money to pay for USC, but not donate a building to get her dumb children in.

So she did the next best thing, got a guaranteed admission by cheating.

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JakeArvizu t1_j9s1vm4 wrote

She probably didn't have fat check for a donation kind of money. Dr. Dre donated something like 70M.

She should have just done the standard rich people thing. Just "homeschool" your kid and fake the grades with private tutors or send them to one of those fancy academies where it's essentially the same thing. She was just to lazy for even that.

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nDQ9UeOr t1_j9si3n2 wrote

Grades won’t get you into those schools. Everyone else has the grades, too. It’s barely part of the selection criteria now.

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Zombie_Harambe t1_j9q5cso wrote

He couldn't even make it out of bronze playing lol. I'm serious.

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