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[quote=eok;38832522 Legally and morally the proper "punishment" is for the bank to get all the assets the kid obtained from the windfall. Nothing further is justified, because the whole incident was their fault in the first place.[/quote]
What World are you living in? Your idea of justice for a criminal act is to hit the "rewind" button, and start from scratch. Doesn't work that way. You don't get to go back and do it again, if you screw up, like a video game. There is this "thing" that's called "Consequences." Maybe your not aware of it.
I suppose a lot of folks like the idea of a crime being only what you don't get away with, and if you get away with it, its not a crime. That's absurd. I just wonder how you came to this idea that if one of your neighbors, or another innocent person makes a mistake, you can profit from it, if you don't get caught? And if you get caught, you get to start over and think "Better luck next time" since there are no consequences to keep you from doing it again? That's pretty weird.
From the time my children were old enough to take something that didn't belong to them, we started the lessons about taking something that wasn't yours. Yes, a lot of times it was just sitting there to be taken and looked like it would not be a problem to make it yours. So, in this new age of "no personal responsibility" do you simply not teach your children that taking something or using something that is not theirs is wrong? I'm sorry, I consider the young adult and his mother to be trash. I do wonder if the adult had been in trouble before.
We have gotten checks and had money deposited in our account in error over our long life. We didn't need to ask what we should do and never considered keeping it.
If he doesn't have morals and integrity at 18, he never will.
He still has a chance but he needs to reject the values of the person who condoned what he did and decide to be better than that.
Read the terms of your bank accounts. You do not own them any more than you own your credit cards. You own the money YOU put into the account and money resulting from interest accrued for that money, not some error. Would all those people claiming the guy was unfairly punished be willing to let things rest if they made a mistake on a check in someone else's favor or if they accidentally deposited money into somone else's account? Nah, they scream bloody murder and demand "their" money back. And if the bank simply said the check was already cashed or the other person withdrew the money so tough luck, every one of them would run to the DA or a lawyer. Every one of them.
Read the terms of the US Government, you technically own no money, and it was never yours. It's all the governments to begin with. Why do you think if you have over 10k on you, you can have it seized and have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it's yours by way of receipt?
Read the terms of the US Government, you technically own no money, and it was never yours. It's all the governments to begin with. Why do you think if you have over 10k on you, you can have it seized and have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it's yours by way of receipt?
What does 10k have to do with anything? Any amount could be seized
Read the terms of the US Government, you technically own no money, and it was never yours. It's all the governments to begin with. Why do you think if you have over 10k on you, you can have it seized and have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it's yours by way of receipt?
Terms of the government would be laws of the government. Don't be ignorant, you know what I mean.
And yes technically you're correct, any amount can be seized. Anything over ten thousand WILL be seized. By way of multiple laws such as the money laundering control act.
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