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33 pointsdeanalevitt10 comments

Office Depot blackmailed me, with the help of corrupt U.S. government agents, and sentenced me to prison.

It wasn’t good enough that we proved they made money on my dealings with them, or that the terms and conditions I was convicted of violating (not laws) came into effect after I allegedly violated them.

In the discovery process, they divulged thousands of their own customers’ personal information, to me, without realizing it.

Surprisingly, nobody has cared enough to report on this.

The Government won’t send their execs to prison. Their execs are the ones our elected officials answer to.

This is not a joke. This is your country, America.

Can you elaborate further on what the conviction was? Thats a bold claim and would like to know more details.

I have filed a 2255 habeas petition that’s available on PACER.

It’s not simple enough to convey in the space available. There are a number of people who don’t know the facts but are happy to spend 2 minutes googling my name then present a distorted account of one ruling as if it proves I’m lying.

If you want to look it up yourself on PACER, I’ll give you the case number if you email me. There’s personal identifying information in there, so I can’t just post it for Google’s bots to index.

Should have been a 350 mil fine and a criminal investigation.

I wonder if the corporate directors had knowledge of this?

> For example, one OfficeMax employee complained to corporate management in 2012, saying 'I cannot justify lying to a customer or being TRICKED into lying to them for our store to make a few extra dollars

Looks like yes.

The answer to this question usually is yes.

Just skip straight to the "executives in jail" part

Edit: of course, that'll never happen

Staples is doing much better than Office Depot in their space, but both companies are way more focused on their B2B delivery side of the business. They stopped caring about retail side years ago, though what Office Depot did was slimy

I wonder why the bean counters at corporations and governments don’t count and keep track of the computer resources / electricity / employee time used by anti virus.

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