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Or generally, if any tech criminals now show nice consulting gigs on their LinkedIns and seem to have traction.

Wonder if any Enron perps are doing well, or Bernie Madoff’s associates, or if Elizabeth Holmes or SBF had righthand men…

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This is well before most HN readers' time, but Michael Milken, the "Junk Bond King," was handed a $600,000,000 fine and a ten-year prison sentance for insider trading and racketeering. He was also barred from reëntering the securities industry. When he was released from prison after serving less than two years, he became a "consultant" charging a flat $25 million fee for his services, which avoided the ban on working in the securities industry.

Trump pardoned him in 2020. Consequences are incredibly elastic for people at the top of the food chain.

Oh lovely.

From his company’s Wiki page, one of the former employees:

> … later arrested after 1995 air rage incident

Other winners listed too but that’s the only guy who pooped on a plane.

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