Fucking LOL. That's amazing.
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"Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE paid for and aided his getaway."
The officials said Flores appeared at an immigration hearing on December 16, where he represented himself, and admitted to the allegations against him then requested voluntary departure.
If a bunch of morons offer you a get out of jail free card and a one way ticket to freedomville, you take it.
The prosecutors added they “remain eager to prosecute defendant for his crimes and vindicate his victims” if he returns to the country.
That dude won the jackpot, cashed in his chips, walked out the front door, and he is never coming back.
This whole story couldn't be more ridiculous if it were a Looney Toon's episode.
never coming back
Why wouldn't he return illegally, commit crimes and get himself deported again?
It's probably a bit too much of gamble to risk doing it ever again. Deportation is absolutely fine but you don't want to end up in one of their concentration camps.
I think that's where the voluntary part comes in. He wasn't fighting it so they just shipped him off. If he'd fight it then it's off to camp while we arrange your hearing (whenever we decide to get around to it).
You underestimate the high life you can lead with a modicum of money in South America.
I mean for all we know he already did. Plus an ice officer would get two deportations toward his quota if this happened. Win/win
Mainly because if he even managed to collect 5% of the actual value of the jewels he stole, he's now got generational wealth in Ecuador. Why bother?
When word got back to the White House, they all nodded in respect, and Trump intoned "Game recognizes Game."
Idk it could be more looney tunes if he does it again. It would be dumb as fuck and he seems smart but still.
Also, legally still innocent. If I were in the position of a falsely accused version of him, you bet your ass I'm doing the exact same thing. Prison slavery or cecot for a crime I didn't commit or take the out that's presented.
The perfect crime 😎
WIth or without the jewelry?
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Much of the merchandise has not been recovered.
that happens when high quotas are set as Miller did, ice agents will deport no matter what to fulfill
edit: do Maduro next
Lately I've heard a lot of officials say somethimg along the lines "if they come here and start causing problems, we're gonna deport them." but I never hear them say whether or not the problem-causing immigrants are facing justice. prior to being deported.
I mean they said they wanted to deport criminals lol
Step 1. Commit crime act of civil service, Luigi-style.
Step 2. Submit yourself to ICE using a false identity for voluntary deportation.
Step 3. Allow the U.S. government to smuggle you out of the country where they no longer have jurisdiction to prosecute you.
Step 4. Laugh as the crypto-fascists get up on stage and boast about how tough on crime they are.
edit: formatting because phones are stupid.
Justice? No, Just ICE. What did they think would happen when they started targeting courts and going after people just for getting charged with a crime? They already fucked over a bunch of people by pardoning convicted criminals who owed a ton of restitution.
Serious criminals are allowed to just walk away, but poor granny has to be dragged from her home kicking and screaming. Maybe it's not about enforcing laws at all, eh? Start calling a spade a spade and stop dancing to their drum.
ICE probably thinks it did its job because the people in it are incapable of thinking that people can have a comfortable life outside of the US, never mind a better one. So basically, they literally helped an immigrant steal $100 million from the US and make away with it because they had an accent and the wrong skin color - which opens up the possibility of just acting like a bad caricature of an immigrant to get free deportations after criminals carry out their crimes.
You get fast-tracked from whatever consequences you would have had to just getting deported, and you didn't even have to bribe Trump with 2 million dollars. Thanks, ICE!
Nah, ICE will deport innocent people only going forward. The criminals stay in the US!
There's no guarantee he got to keep the money. It could be in a safe buried in America and he has no easy way to get to it again.
You think that would work? Volunteer for a self deportation even if you're technically a US citizen? Asking for reasons unrelated to me
Holy fuck! 100 million smackers? That's like what Jeff Bozos makes in a gnats's coffee break. But still...
I hope he fucking kept all of it and posts pictures of him smoking cigars and snorting blow off a hooker's boobs while having Batman and Robin playing in the background with Arnie's depiction of Mr. Freeze saying 'Iced to meet you!'
FIRST you Libtards COMPLAINED when we were Shooting Mothers in the Face and Kidnapping Children and NOW You're complaining when we're ACTUALLY Deporting Criminals! There's NO PLEASING YOU!
-Hakeem Jeffries!
Well you know what they say about broken clocks. Good on Jeson, I hope he gets away with it. What a legend.
You can now commit any crime in the U.S. and easily get away with it. Just have ICE escort you to freedom.
Gotta fill the quota. Dude probably traded it for bitcoin and can now live large
Bitcoin is a transparent ledger. It would be better to trade it for USD, which is main currency for laundering illegal funds, and the currency used by both the US and EC
Or Monero
As long as he has the key for the wallet there's little hope for anyone else accessing the crypto. Its less about the tracking here and more about moving it outside the reach of authorities
The US has collaborated with many countries to arrest people who have illicit funds in crypto.
Ecuador's Noboa bends at the knee for Trump. He's a US citizen.
There is no "out of reach" for illicit bitcoin, since it's a transparent blockchain that is being monitored by millions of people, including governments, LE, and private sector.
Did he get sent to that hell-hole Equadorian prison though? That'd be a massive self-own.
Isn't self deport a plane ticket to where you want, on your own time and with your own money?
I think you're mixing it with El Salvador
Ecuador's prisons are run by gangs. It's a different kind of hell hole. Lots of murder in there (by prisoners. In El Salvador, it's the guards that do the torture and murder)
there are a lot of different places in Ecuador. He can leave for the countryside. Buy a plantation and build a nice little compound. You think Ecuadorean Government officials can't be bought off?
extradition?
The criminal is no longer in the country, as they voluntarily self-deported. Extradition would no longer be possible.
They're also not a criminal. They're a suspect
A suspect in a low income country. And they're got the best part of $100 million to bribe any local cops with.
That guy ain't coming back.
That's not an issue as suspects are regularly extradited, you do not need to be convicted to be extradited.
Sure, but don't call someone a criminal who is literally not a criminal. They're a suspect, not a criminal. Don't tarnish their image.
Do you know what extradition is? If he's in a country with extradition deals with the US, the US can ask to be arrested and send back to the US to be judge
I bet this guy can pay people enough to forget they saw him. He can change his name and go no contact.
Ah, I see. I thought that they meant that the US should extradite the criminal.
Though if he voluntarily self-deported to escape the trial, it seems rather unlikely that he would have chosen a country with extradition deals with the US. That seems like it would just be going in a circle.




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