These morons wouldn’t know socialized medicine if they fell over it and it paid for their physical therapy. They are as collectively idiotic as a box of hair.

Do those people really think that a cure for this child’s illness is waiting for him in the US? How to argue against such absolute, deliberate, ignorance?

Lol. “Socialized medicine didn’t cure this baby, so therefore NO medicine would be a better solution!”#republicanlogic

No problem! It’s questionable whether it originally was a slur against anyone but lawyers, but enough people take it as anti-Semitic now that I figure it’s better to avoid confusion, same as I don’t use “niggardly” (which is completely unrelated to that slur).

Perhaps you should read up on the case then. The hospital even sought an exemption to provide experimental gene therapy for Charlie after hearing about the US doctor’s trial and only stopped when the doctor explained the therapy doesn’t cross the blood brain barrier, meaning there is no chance of having any effects…

It’s not like that. Great Ormond Street Hospital has acted entirely appropriately. They concluded that his epileptic encephalopathy was such that his brain damage was severe and irreversible, and that the experimental treatment in the US was potentially painful but incapable of achieving anything positive for him. The…

Of course they don’t want their baby to die, that why sometimes the medical team have to say “this is what is best, nothing more can be done.”. He is not their property. He is a baby with rights of his own. He has a right to live and die in dignity. The decision shouldn’t be theirs. I hope they can make their…

As soon as I saw this tweet I had a very visceral response involving a lot of cursing. He’s so tone deaf and clueless.

I’ve seen a lot of Trumpers saying this is what’s wrong with single payer healthcare and I’m like... what?!

Yep. Hutchinson will be scratching his head all night and trying to figure out how legally concealed guns in nightclub led to a mass shooting.

Exactly. That mom and pop store has inventory with a realizable value, it has cash in a bank account, it has relationships with vendors and customers, it has a physical building, and it may even own the building and the land that it occupies. That’s worth a hell of a lot more than a small amount of stock and a vague…

Federal criminal defense lawyer here. 20 years is the statutory maximum. Sentences for federal crimes are determined by the guidelines, which factor in things like your criminal history and the amount of loss. Don’t know all his specifics but no chance he’d do anywhere close to 20 years.

I was about to say, this company sounds like it doesn’t really DO anything, has no business model, and in fact has nothing but an Instagram and a handful of buzzwords... It reminds me of the original dotcom bust. Vaporware, and an inflatable resume, can only get you so far for so long.

Plenty of investors invest believe what they want to believe. By all accounts, he’s a good salesman. Hell, he got plenty of people to agree to go to this festival even though the whole thing, splashy website aside, looked really shady. Investors want to believe in a good sorry and this guy somehow gets idiots like Ja…

If you read the complaint, he changed bank statements to show false revenue figures that he hen used to show investors, who invested based on those figures. He even doctored stock documents to show he had $2.5m in shares in a company (the complaint doesn’t state the company but a civil lawsuit says its Facebook), when…

Very true. I think wire fraud was what eventually ended up in televangelist Jim Bakker of the PTL club going to prison. If you’re old (like me) you probably remember this photo. And I don’t mean to compare/contrast this Fyre festival guy to Jim Bakker, or organized crime, etc. Just an illustration that, for a long…

It comes down to intent. If he thought he could handle it all and just fucked up, it’s not fraud. There must be some evidence that he knew he was in over his head and kept going anyway, and in the process lied to his investors to keep them on board. That is wire fraud.

And he did pocket an ungodly amount of money for himself via inflating the value of Fyre by millions and selling those figures to investors who gave him the money. How did he spend it? On models and yachts for him and his bros. Even the women who worked for him weren’t allowed to go on the multiple trips to the…

Wire and mail fraud is a federal crime, and usually involves moving money across state lines. It is also often used to crack down on organized crime (usually used to try to make a RICO case). It often involves government organizations (like the Post Office) being used, so the government takes it pretty seriously.

The Washington Post said he falsified financial documents that inflated Fyre’s worth to millions. In reality, Fyre was worth less than $60k. Aside from the forgery, I assume any valuation is an artificial, inflated number that startups pull out of their butts. How the hell does any investor believe valuation figures…