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His lifetime earnings will now be greatly diminished as a felon. He would likely have spent a fortune on legal fees before accepting this plea.

He made a very stupid decision and it will impact the remainder of his life.

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America, where the legal fees hurt worse than the punishment.

Well, it’s the same for puny things. Insurance spike hurts way more than an over speeding fine.

His potential lifetime earnings were probably already suffering as a result of being a CIO who presided over a massive data breach.

He was CIO of one of the business units (Equifax U.S. Information Solutions), not the whole company. That guy (Dave Webb) resigned after the breach, and Jun Ying was going to replace him.

I doubt that. Nobody seemed to care that he really shat the bed.

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