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Comment by michaelmrose

You missed the entire point. Such a conflict of interest doesn't represent a crime which the government itself finally admitted in court after they spent millions of your tax dollars and several years destroying these people's lives and extorting guilty please from 4 men for what was manifestly and on its face not a crime.

Even after they recognized that the government was entirely full of shit they took 7 months to recognize that you can't plead guilty to helping someone commit something that was not itself a crime and at time of writing seemingly haven't returned the money the government illegally robbed victim of.

The start of the prosecution was a material misrepresentation by Amazon. Amazon would have been correct to fire him. They deliberately misrepresented the nature of the law and conduct to turn America's justice system into their attack dog to destroy these people are your expense.

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