Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.
    • EpeeGnome@feddit.onlineEnglish
      45·
      3 days ago

      The civil case is just there as an example (among many) of what kind of person he is and didn’t need to be in the headline. The pardon was for the 3 year prison sentence for $39 Million dollars in tax fraud for stealing his employees’ payroll tax withholdings.

      Edit: He also had a prison sentence from the state of Arkansas, where he was immediately paroled and the parole board refuses to pass on his location to process servers. An all around amazing guy who’s exactly the sort of person you would expect Trump to pardon.

        • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
          32·
          3 days ago

          Let’s not go crazy here. Feudalism was an evil that lasted for over a thousand years. Killing it was worth any cost.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
            6·
            3 days ago

            The current wealth imbalance is orders of magnitude worse, the twisted and morally bankrupt ruling class shows even more naked contempt for us than any king ever did, and feudalism never threatened to make the entire planet uninhabitable. It’s objectively worse now in a lot of ways and only the sheer amount of material wealth and comfort that exists and surrounds us make it seem tolerable.

            No war but class war - we were born into a badly weakened, largely pacified labour movement. If we don’t start playing hardball, we’re going to end up back at feudalism; and this time Louis XIV will have nukes.

            • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              I agree and have made that same argument about how technology has made things different now.

              Nevertheless, feudalism is the enslavement of the population, whether it’s done with swords and pikes, or whatever the fuck we have going on here which is a lot worse.

  • dan69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    It was probably cheaper to donate to trump and getting a pardon. Rather than going through litigation.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Ever have a lawyer tell you: “It’s just business, don’t take it personally?”

      I don’t care if it’s business, I still took it personally.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I know if someone owed me $19 million for killing a family member and found a way to circumvent court proceedings I would feel compelled to take justice into my own hands.

    I will take my pound of flesh from them one dollar at a time.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Is only crime was making a bunch of money. We must remember that the ends always justify the means as long as the means don’t inconvenience me or mine. amen.