This is some serious unprecedented bullshit. Especially when their charge was money laundering. Basically he is making money laundering legal. Go ahead and break the law. Trump will pardon you…

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    8 months ago

    HDR Global Trading, parent company of BitMEX

    You’re welcome. Fuck paywalls, and fuck clickbait that buries the actual info behind the paywall.

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      And what was being pardoned:

      “In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law.”

      Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like “I want to destroy the country” with not a whole lot else going on.

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      Thank you! I immediately wondered if OP was a shill since s/he also didn’t name the company in the title or summary.

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      There is no paywall. It does require you provide an email. Doesn’t have to be a real email, just email format.

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        I did some testing. The form accepts anything in the format *@*.* so long as each * segment only contains appropriate characters. The domain itself doesn’t need to be real, but the suffix needs to be real.

        a@b.cd” works.

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      9 months ago

      Well, except criminal court where sentencing is a joke because no human is held accountable.

      Kill a bunch of people? That’ll be a fine you pass on to your customers.

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            9 months ago

            Since I wasn’t clear at all in my first comment: I’m referring to the fact that people can also get away with murder, as long as they’re driving a car at the time. Very rarely is it much more than a slap on the wrist, but it’s always significantly less than any other form of negligent homicide.

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      9 months ago

      I refuse to parrot the phrase “corporations are people” unless I’m being clearly sarcastic, or add, “the shitty US supreme court has incorrectly ruled that” beforehand.