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So that’s what… 9.5 years minimum?

I can’t picture someone with such an inflated sense of self-worth finding that to be acceptable. How’s she not making this worse for herself by trying to flee or something?

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I doubt her passport still works, and I likewise doubt that she still has (or ever had) the right friends to disappear without one.

Hmmmm yeah I guess she was never actually part of the elite billionaire club of people with seemingly limitless power.

24 months and then "house arrest"

If it's a federal sentence I don't think they will be that lenient

It’s federal. So an absolute minimum of 85% of the sentence.

If one of the guys who was selling children into prison (cash for kids) was able to get on to house arrest before 85%, I'm sure she will be able to find a way.

Do you have a docket number or just feelings about how it should all work?

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