So much of the government is like this, they will hire some connected guy to manage something in a slightly competent manner.
Just learned that the federal government has long term leases on office buildings that congressmen have a financial interest in. More disappointment.
To be clear: the crypto in question wasn't managed in even a slightly competent manner. It was literally embezzled.
And he has been and continues to make fun of the investigators, publicly mocking investigators and sending small amounts from the fraudulent wallets to investigators.
Crazy world
He’s reaping what he saw. Things aren’t looking good for him nor his father, a lesson both of them will painfully learn from. Father career is possibly over.
> Things aren’t looking good for him nor his father, a lesson both of them will painfully learn from
You’re a hell of an optimist.
I’d say that it’s just as likely that the pardon sharpie is being readied, just as soon as the super PAC donation clears.
Put it into Trump's coin as a donation
Trump already rug pulled
Bribes are $3M cash. He's good.
why would that make a difference
> Father career is possibly over.
Plenty of people would happily flush their career down the drain to run away with their family and $90M
the feds haven't even acknowledged there was a theft. it's possible they still don't know or somehow don't have the evidence to bring charges
Or this is a false accusation.
I don't have the knowledge to sanity check the claims, but I would've figured someone would be getting rolled by now. I recall that the dad was scrubbing socials along with the son, but that could be token harassment.
A bit lost here. Is there more backstory to this? It reads as if the government contractors son stole the 90 million from the government?
Correct. US Marshalls have a contract with this guy’s dad to mange their crypto holdings (seized as part of investigations). Kid steals money but can’t resist showing off to friends and gets “busted”. Except the government still doesn’t appear to acknowledge a theft even occurred and the kid taunts investigators by sending them small amounts of ETH.
Is this the part everyone's telling me about where fascists are deeply incompetent?
This would be a much better link for this post
There's a lot more detail, and delivered in more professional way
If you email the mods about this (and link to your comment), they might well agree and update the post link.
It appears the feds were so incompetent they didn't realize the theft had occurred until AFTER Zach's post went viral, and even then, nothing may happen. And to think, had Lick done nothing he likely would have gotten away with it. Perfect crime undone by ego.
There's no honor among thieves.
Thieves "in a vacuum" don't do this stuff. Nobody does.
This is basically a DDOS reflection attack but with government.
I'm not gonna go put a bullet in someone who over a petty dispute like this. Nobody is, not even a thief. That's just absurd. Someone who I've wronged in doing so (i.e. someone who likes them) might put one back in me. People let those things go because it's just not worth it.
But say I can do something that will cause the government to go after someone for me at no risk to myself... That's basically what happened here.