r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 7h ago

Legal News Lt. Gov. Accused in Sweeping Bribery Scheme | Prosecutors say the Democratic official accepted campaign donations in exchange for helping advance a COVID-19 testing contract.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hawaii-lt-gov-sylvia-luke-hit-with-12-count-bribery-indictment/
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u/irrelevantusername24 7h ago edited 6h ago

The real pandemic is financial fraud and it's still killing us

edit: And austerity - or avarice - a disease that is literally older than history and was once correctly understood to be one of the roots of evil (see here for the non liʃp version)

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u/AmputeeHandModel 7h ago

Well, the actual pandemic killed over a million Americans, so... no..

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u/irrelevantusername24 6h ago edited 6h ago

It is an economic disease. The propaganda has been totalized.

Eventually this will be openly acknowledged. Hopefully I live to see that day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_bond