FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms | Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison::undefined

  • the dopamine fiend@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I like what Robert Anton Wilson had to say about conspiracies and their life cycles:

    “[A]s far as I’ve been able to discover in all my years of being involved, more or less unwillingly, in this field, I cannot find any proof of any conspiracy that really existed, was really brought into court and convicted, that lasted more than ten years before everybody double-crossed everybody else and the conspiracy fell apart.”

    • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      In fairness, there has to be some survivorship bias here: if the members of a conspiracy don’t double-cross each other and are competent enough not to expose themselves, it’s a lot less likely they’d ever get brought into court in the first place.