Billionaires Behind Bars



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36 thoughts on “Billionaires Behind Bars”

  1. At 29:21 – A thing about the correctional department that you might not know. (My father is a retired corrections officer, so he told me a thing or two.)

    Both State and Federal prison systems have Minimum, Medium, and Maximum security prisons.

    The breakdown of who goes to which involves a few things, but the two that make the most sense to people outside the system are how heinous the crime was, and how much time the convict will serve.

    People who are serving life sentences (ballpark of 25+) and death sentences are sent to Maximum Security. They are going to be there for a long time, so there is nothing left to lose.

    As such… A "white collar" crime that gets what amounts to a life sentence, and a violent crime that gets a life sentence, will earn both perpetrators time in a Maximum security prison. Life is life.

    As much as some people would think that "but this one didn't commit a violent offense! Surely he shouldn't be in the same place as violent offenders!" sort of makes sense, that isn't how it works. Life is life, and Maximum is Maximum. They are in it together, for better or for worse.

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  2. Madoff wasn't put in prison with violent criminals, he was sent to Federal Correctional Complex Butner, which is a low-medium security prison for people who aren't considered a risk to public safety. I remember hearing news about him being beaten and figured it was because his fraud targeted a lot of white-collar folks and… well, he went to white-collar prison, probably ran into one of the people he defrauded.

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  3. What a shame that people keep getting older and older. I mean, if my Grandpa's generation could just be the greatest then die like Caesars generation, that would be great. But instead they're gonna live long enough to see them bankrupt the country with retirement while they die slowly of dementia.

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  4. oh yeah, the merchant of death have to go to prison for 25 years for giving guns to poor nations so that they can kill them self even faster. but at the same time there are thousants of Shops inside the US which sells guns to nearly everyone, some times in pink to make little girls happy on chrismas. yeah, sounds reasonable.

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  5. The US judicial system is making no sense but Simons sense of crime and punishment makes no sense either.
    International illegal arms dealer gets 25 years: "it's not the same as murder, he shouldn't go to prison for life"
    Guy who scammed people out of their savings with a ponzi scheme goes to jail for life: "Good, he deserves it."

    All of the people on the list today deserve to go to prison for life. But Madoff is least terrible one here.

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  6. Actually, the arms dealer probably got the light sentence because the U.S. made a deal with the Philipines that they (we) wouldn't execute him. Most of the time it's the extradition deal that gets these types of criminals the "sweet deal" of either a minimum sentence of 25 years or life without parole.

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  7. Trading The Merchant of death for the WNBA player is definitely a great deal. The guy wasn't an American citizen I don't see why my country has any right to prosecute him for anything. Blackwater is doing the same shit around the world.

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  8. Lol right?? I put in at least 2spoonfuls per bowl and eat Oreos or Chips Ahoy or just bites of chocolate with the cereal. But yeah I'd try Magic Spoon but $10 a box? One question Simon, do they take food stamps?

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  9. 3:24 Simon, what good are lists just regurgitating the most well known stuff everyone has already seen / heard 500 times? It defeats the purpose of watching another video with a similar topic to hear about something you don't already know and is just boring. TBH that's why top 10 lists can be really annoying, they often have like 3-5 well known things and unless you skip half the video it's just a waste of time.

    People should make more top 50 lists or whatever like 101 facts so that even when listing the well known stuff there is still a decent amount of stuff you don't know yet.

    It's not like we get so much gratification from hearing someone list top 10 xyz with stuff we already know should be there that just hearing it over and over again from different yt channels is anything but annoying.

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  10. 14:24 Simon, 9 people died and 750 were hospitalized, in China he would literally have gotten the death penalty and tbh this is not that different from like 2nd degree murder or manslaughter or whatever.

    But this guy that went ahead with the crime just because his boss told him to was just as guilty and should have gotten the same sentence. This is not even the military so "I was ordered to do it" holds up even less.

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