Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Battle To Recover Seized Assets (cnet.com) 58
The Justice Department wants to keep Kim Dotcom's millions of dollars worth of seized assets, citing the Megaupload founder's fugitive status. The department filed a brief on Friday, which cited his fugitive status as well as a lack of evidence supporting claims that poor health was preventing him from entering the U.S. CNET reports: Dotcom has been in the news since 2012, when the FBI and the US Department of Justice shut down file-sharing site Megaupload and charged the site's operators with the piracy-related offenses. The U.S. government also seized $42 million in assets. Dotcom, alongside Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato, are wanted for trial in the U.S. on 13 counts, including copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud. In February, the New Zealand High Court found that Dotcom, a New Zealand resident, and his co-accused were eligible for extradition to the United States.
Well yeah! (Score:2, Funny)
Trump needs the money, to pay back his Russian loans....
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Hard to forget something you never knew.
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Oh please! He owes like around 42 billion! CHAAA!
Yeah but take away the amount he ads in for his over inflated ego and he's in the red ... russian red.
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Unpaid tax?
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Hell I can say that my "name" is worth 450 Trillion Dollars, that does not make it true.
If you remove is over inflated ego and his misguided sense of worth from the equation, $45 Million may be more than what he's actually worth.
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Re: How come slashdot is deleting posts? (Score:1)
Nobody said you can troll. Slashdot is private property, you don't have to stay.
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And here I thought the Supremes denied (Score:1)
What the actual fuck kind of a god damn hack job is this submission? gtfo with this garbage. Maybe you should wait until the Supreme Court actually, you know, decides what to do with the petition.
Ass fucks.
The headline is not consistent with the article. (Score:5, Informative)
Also:
Kim Dotcom isn't a US citizen and has been going to all his NZ court dates. Hardly what I'd call a fugitive.
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Anyone who goes against the status quo in the waxing totalitarian plutocracy is a fugitive
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Kimmie? No. He has many character flaws and he certainly deserves to roast for quite a few things, but one thing is certain: Not for him knowing too much.
Re:The headline is not consistent with the article (Score:5, Insightful)
"Fugitive" is typically used to mean someone on the run in hiding, escaping the police... not someone making persistently annoying use of lawyers.
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Welcome to the new world where using the legal system to even determine what your rights are classifies you as a fugitive.
Re:The headline is not consistent with the article (Score:5, Insightful)
Far from a saint? Sure, Kim Dotcom is pretty much scum. That doesn't mean that he doesn't deserve justice.
The US has overreached in this case. They somehow convinced New Zealand to go along with it. They both got caught doing illegal stuff, which ought to have ended the case then and there.
Instead, they have adopted a strategy seems to be one of seizing assets, and then running up Dotcom's legal bills, in hopes that he simply won't be able to defend himself any longer. Whatever this is, "justice" isn't the term that springs to mind.
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Kimmie deserves justice. And sorry to say it, but this pretty much is it.
They got Capone for tax evasion instead of his real crimes because they couldn't tack them to him. It's not that different here. Yes, under normal circumstances I'd be outraged that the US abuse their international muscle to get their way, but with Kimmie, it's at best indirect justice.
He managed to swindle and bribe his way out of so many prisons and sold former partners and investors left and right to investigators to save his own hi
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Searching any thing in the life of people to put them in jail is not justice. Even about Capone, Dotcom, in fact for anybody. Anybody can be put in jail under those conditions [amazon.com].
This is why there are some failsafes in the constitution and in the human rights declaration against unreasonable search and seizure of asset.
I always amaze that so many US citizen seems to think this kind of thing is normal. Yeaaah, he is a bad guy lets find anything to put him in jail. US justice is sick.
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If the US really wanted to get him, they could just send a couple of agents and take him.
Agents? What are you talking about? You think they're going to send the CIA? Seal team 6? ;)
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Hes delayed the trial so many times over so many petty reasons and cost the taxpayer millions in the process.
If getting a continuance on a court date costs millions of dollars for the taxpayers, I'd say the problem is with your judicial process, not with Kim Dot Com.
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I'm a Kiwi, and hes far from a saint.
Hes gone to all his court dates you say? Hes delayed the trial so many times over so many petty reasons and cost the taxpayer millions in the process. He tried to bribe his way into our government system, so that during our last elections if his tiny internet party got into power, his party would veto any extradition order.
Hes defenality a fugitive to us law. There is nothing stopping him from going to the US. And our nz law has decreed he should go. But hes refusing and tying up the courts to avoid doing so.
You think that someone exercising all their legal options is a fugitive?
Lemme guess - we should do away with trials altogether and simply see if they float on water, right?
I've got my fingers crossed (Score:2, Troll)
That in August, he'll lose the appeal and is finally removed from New Zealand.
Additionally, they should revoke his residency since he lied on the application about previous criminal convictions.
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And why is that?
I get you don't like him. I don't like him. But tearing down the entire legal system --this action has thoroughly shot both countries' legal systems' credibility-- just to get rid of one fat fsck seems a bit much, eh?
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And why is that?
I get you don't like him. I don't like him. But tearing down the entire legal system --this action has thoroughly shot both countries' legal systems' credibility-- just to get rid of one fat fsck seems a bit much, eh?
Your statement needs to be higher modded, and I'm trying to give it visibility. From "A man for all seasons":
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
The problem with changing the law to fit individual circumstances is that, sooner rather than later, the now modified law can be used to pursue you.
What's a label? (Score:3)
A terrorist is a terrorist unless he wins. Then he is a freedom fighter.
Robin Hood was essentially a libertarian. He didn't rob the rich and gave it the poor, he robbed the government and gave it to the tax payers.
It's all a matter of perspective.
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Right, which is why you Yanks love to use the term "patriot" to describe the founding fathers of your country. When they were actually committing treason at best, and terrorism at worst!
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"You Yanks"? What did I do to deserve being offended?