Subject: Re: Biden/s Sttatement on the Pardon
Sorry, I couldn't resist posting. I mean, it's not every day you get to tell albaby1 he's full of shit.

Then Daryl Strawberry. Or Ja Rule. Or Lauryn Hill. Or any of a number of other celebrities that were tagged with willfully failing to pay their taxes. If you do it over multiple years, for more than a million dollars, with some false filings or outright failure to file altogether, you face a real chance of criminal prosecution and actual jail time.

He committed serious tax fraud. He deserved to face criminal prosecution for serious tax fraud. Had he been an ordinary person, with no political involvement at all, there's a very good chance that he would have been prosecuted for serious tax fraud.

That chance was heightened for Biden because, unlike ordinary people, he wrote a memoir. Which was filled with incriminating information and substantial evidence documenting his tax fraud. Which made it a slam dunk for prosecutors to prove that many of the elements of the tax evasion were not honest mistakes, but rather a years-long pattern of willful deception. Which completely removed the "it's hard to prove intent" element that allows some people to dodge an actual criminal conviction and just get hit with civil fraud.

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