itnewsbot, 2 months ago to random

Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction - Since the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul was convicted of fraud last year, his supporters... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/technology/sam-bankman-fried-fraud-ftx.html #metropolitandetentioncenter(brooklynny) #hkftxtradingltd(futuresexchange) #computersandtheinternet #decisionsandverdicts #sentences(criminal) #friedbarbara(1951-) #fraudsandswindling #lawandlegislation #bankman-friedsam #virtualcurrency #bankruptcies

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Hostility to Chinese immigrant workers building the Canadian Pacific Ry in British Columbia 1878-84 took many forms including an increase in the severity of prison sentences for Chinese offenders, according to Blair Long & coauthors in a new working paper
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4666214
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @criminology @geography @anthropology @econhist @immigration
#history #histodons #Chinese #racism #Canada #BC #railway #sentences #immigration #prison #bias #criminology