Originally posted on 10/29/2012:

Quote Originally Posted by Shifty View Post
Hope they find 12 jurors who think like you. Looks like these guys are in deep sh*t.
The chances that any of these "charges" going to trial are remote. This is basically a cash grab for the feds and a publicity stunt ordered by the AG under the orders of someone. If you're still not aware of how the process works in arrests like these let me enlighten you.

A. The Feds bust a group of people and steal millions of cash and property.

B. The Feds alert the press who write sensational stories of "mob connections" and "offshore ownership"

C. The Feds threaten these people with prison terms of 25 years.

D. The Feds offer a deal to those looking at 25 years with 3 month sentences at a federal country club in exchange for an admission of guilt, surrendering of all seized assets, and as much information as they can give on others in their "operation".

E. The Feds hold a press conference announcing the guilty pleas of all involved, and tell the American people once again of how they got the bad guys who engaged in activities that could possibly launder money for terrorists, and ruin the fabric of society.

F. The Feds take the millions they stole, and buy new riot gear, tanks, and automatic weapons, and distribute their older riot gear, tanks, and automatic weapons to municipal, state, and county police so the next time they want to raid a free buy in poker game at a bar, they can come in with fully armed SWAT teams and terrorize the innocent players with guns pointed at their heads, or in the case of Sal Culosi, they can shoot and kill him when the phone in his hand is "mistaken" for a gun (even though he's an optomotrist that never had a violence related incident or any arrest in his whole life)