[GrootheWanderer]

If I stole a car, TV, PC, etc. and gave it to someone and they didn’t know it was stolen, they should be allowed to keep it?

[Reverend Wright]

The problem is unequal justice, and divers weights, unjust measures.

If embezzled money had been given to Planned Parenthood there would be no prosecution or demand for funds return.

[Responsibility2nd]

If I stole a car, TV, PC, etc. and gave it to someone and they didn’t know it was stolen, they should be allowed to keep it?

Should the former employees of that business be forced to return all the pay they received while working for that company?

[EnderWiggin1970]

If I stole a car, TV, PC, etc. and gave it to someone and they didn’t know it was stolen, they should be allowed to keep it? If they then sold the car (etc.) and spent the money, all in good faith, then should they be forced to repay the money? My understanding is that it is the car that should be tracked down and returned in such cases.

In this case money was given, but then also spent as would be routine for such a ministry. Clawbacks are a thing in bankruptcies (as I learned the hard way a few years ago) and when dealing with fraud like this. But there needs to be some reasonable limitation protecting "in good faith" recipients. For one thing, it tends to enrich the lawyers to a large degree, with the original victims only getting a fraction of the clawed back funds. And that doesn't sit right with me as regards the "in good faith" recipient. Lawyers are doing well enough already in this country.