Posted on 02/09/2017 1:00:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 02/09/2017 1:57:41 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
A Florida man who told authorities he made $7 billion in illegal transfers from a bank because "Jesus Christ created wealth for everyone'' has pleaded guilty to a single charge.
John Haskew of Lakeland pleaded guilty Thursday to making a false statement to the federal government.
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Go Big or Go Home?
Go Big and Go to the Big House?
Jesus Saves, but Moses invests.
Has he been a Democrat his whole life?
He should get 3.5 times the sentence Corzine got.
Created wealth for everyone? I dont remember reading who His stockbroker was in the New Testament.
This is not the court that you want to plead the Jesus defense in.
You save that defense for a much bigger court!!!
And that’s not exactly the right Jesus defense either.
That “defense” will not go over well in the long term.
Hmmm...$250,000 fine, leaving $6,999,750,000 spread over 5 years...yep, still a pretty good wage.
I'm going out on a limb here - but I think Mr Haskew may be living in an alternate universe. I also dont think 5 years in the big house is going to be easy on him.
He should have just run for Congress.
“I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield....”
I’m thinking the bank regulators probably need to pay a little visit to that institution. Obviously, a Too Big To Fail bank.
He owed the government $7 billion? Somehow I doubt that. This is a very poorly written story; but I notice they did remember to use his quote about Jesus.
“Jesus Saves, but Moses invests.”
And Sysadmin backs up.
5.56mm
Paging Jim Bakker...
Jesus should be used in an offensive, goal-scoring, forechecking role.
$7 billion dollars?
I cringe when I read about someone stealing or embezzling $75,000, $150,000 or something similar. Just not worth it. But...
This guy should NEVER have been caught.
Heck, he could’ve bought his own country with it’s own army.
Benjamin Ben-Bernanke.
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