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But she wasn't charged with anything? I don't understand why the feds have to destroy her business and take all the family funds. Usually it's a tactic to make the children suffer, so the parents suffer more. The feds don't really care at all about who they destroy or who is a thrown under the bus including children. Not their problem.

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> But she wasn't charged with anything? I don't understand why the feds have to destroy her business and take all the family funds.

Wasn't the "business" a shell company used to launder money from flip scams, and aren't those "family funds" the millions in ill-gotten gains from those scams?

See backstory in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30388129

I love how someone caught in a corruption scandal scamming his employer out of a few millions spins this with an emotional tale led with a GoFundMe link.

Maybe they had a shared account, or the husband didn't have enough funds to cover the alleged fraud?

I think this is shifting blame, the father could have avoided any harm to his children by not engaging in dozens of multi million dollar felony frauds. Or by simply keeping his assets which are tainted with stolen money totally fire-walled from his wife's. As soon as they intermingled accounts there is no sense of 'which dollar was honest and used to invest in his wife's business', everything is tainted.

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