On 11/09/2010 10:11 AM, Bryan wrote:


>> Sure, the truckers whined that it was a money grab, but the fact is that
>> the fine was so high that they didn't want to get nailed with it. It
>> took a $500 to get them to comply.
>
> For many years I have advocated extending property forfeiture laws
> that pertain only to drug dealing to all serious economic crimes. If
> a multimillionaire CEO makes a phone call from his house to plan
> fraud, confiscate the mansion. If he uses his private plane to fly to
> a meeting where he conspires to commit tax evasion, take the plane.


I know someone who was convicted of a major fraud, $15 million. She
lived the high life while she was pulling it off and even during the
year or so that it took to go to trial. She served less than a year of
her 5 year sentence and, despite living in a halfway house while on
parole, was still living high on the hog. She was really busted for
parole violations and is back in jail. She hasn`t paid a penny of the
$4.5 million restitution that was ordered, but she and her husband kept
their house, which was in his name though she paid for it, and they have
recently bought another house.

> If a son of a bitch who knowingly hires undocumented workers thought
> that he was at risk of almost all of his wealth being confiscated, you
> can bet your ass he'd be very unlikely to do so. I'd like to see an
> argument against this.

It`s easy enough to know if someone is a legal worker. Some may slip
through the cracks, but when you have an operation that hires nothing
but illegals it should not be a problem to through the book at them.