My understanding is that these sorts of white collar crimes don’t normally result in jail time for defendants with no previous criminal record, in New York state courts.
I get the feeling that the number of counts doesn’t really matter here, because they are not really unique crimes. My understanding is that they brought 34 charges because they had 34 documents they thought they could prove in court were fraudulent, but it is materialy the same crime (deliberately mischaracterizing the nature of the payment)
It’s 34 individual crimes that were committed as a pattern of criminality.
Lets say a mass shooter runs and kills 34 people; that’s 34 homicides but a single trial. each one would be worth whatever time in jail.
In this case, the usual punishment is a fine rather than jail time; and jail is only an option for extremely severe cases (or if they can’t pay the fine?) So, they’re just gonna stack the “appropriate” fines.
My understanding is that these sorts of white collar crimes don’t normally result in jail time for defendants with no previous criminal record, in New York state courts.
I get the feeling that the number of counts doesn’t really matter here, because they are not really unique crimes. My understanding is that they brought 34 charges because they had 34 documents they thought they could prove in court were fraudulent, but it is materialy the same crime (deliberately mischaracterizing the nature of the payment)
It’s 34 individual crimes that were committed as a pattern of criminality.
Lets say a mass shooter runs and kills 34 people; that’s 34 homicides but a single trial. each one would be worth whatever time in jail.
In this case, the usual punishment is a fine rather than jail time; and jail is only an option for extremely severe cases (or if they can’t pay the fine?) So, they’re just gonna stack the “appropriate” fines.