He's a banker and they should have made an example of him. 7 years and he'll be out in 5 and will probably be allowed to serve some of it at home with an ankle tracker, I bet.
So 7 years with 5 years supervised release. Is that 12 years altogether or does it mean 2 years jail plus 5 years supervised release (like Epstein) to total 7 years?
In response to this and your other post, yeah, it seems very light and disgustingly "white collar crimes" often seem to be. As a banker I'd say that makes him far worse than some with the breach of trust.
Don't know on the sentence but I'd think the supervised release would be after serving his sentence.
So did Alex make a deal in exchange for pleading guilty? Sorry for not taking the time to read the link..
No, I don't think they have to give him the same or similar to the banker. For one he has the charge of stealing from his law firm. I don't think their charges are exactly the same are they? Even if they were, I don't think sentencing has to be the same plus their positions were different. Alex was screwing his clients and/or was setting them up, I'd say he was more the perpetrator than the banker.
I'm a bit surprised by the guilty plea but not entirely. He wants to get into federal prison and not be in state prison. I'd also worry in Alex's case about connections. He isn't the scale of Epstein but I think people are naive to think this man never partied with anyone of influence or politics outside his little area or never had met or knew any others outside of it., up to state levels for sure, and who knows about federal. OR his father, grandfather, etc. did and so on. I'm not SAYING it is the case but I could see it.
I'd say they're going one step at a time (although I'm sure he'd rather do all at once and thinks he can be free) and the first is to get him into federal prison. I doubt he will shut up then and yes, appealing the murder convictions will be part of it. Even with pleading guilty here, I don't think it will stay that smooth. He will fight it at some point IF he goes through with it or he will serve what could be a light sentence and then HOPES to have the murder convictions overturned or won on appeal simultaneously to serving the federal sentence. I guess it is logical, they don't have much choice and this is their logical and best route.
I wonder first is there a deal for a certain amount of time in exchange for pleading guilty? I wonder second if they can make the argument of the banker's sentence and that he should receive the same or less. The banker went to trial didn't he? And did not plead guilty? Am I thinking of the right guy? So by Alex admitting guilt, he could receive lighter or argue for lighter? He does NOT DESERVE lighter and any honest judge should sentence him hard but we will have to wait and see. I'd not count on anything...
As far as where all the money went, I don't know there is anything all that curious about it. They were imo gluttons of greed and lavish lifestyles. Him especially. There doesn't APPEAR to be any Swiss chalet or hidden bank account or money stashed or you'd think he'd have been accessing it instead of continuing to need to steal.
Two homes, cars for them all, toys for them all, funding the lives of them all, college, drinks for all, hookers for him and his friends and parties, jet setting, games, dinners, bribes and payoffs, splitting the theft proceeds,, Paul's spending, lawyers once the Beach incident happened and more. Maybe gambling, who knows. Just playing the big shot.
It's funny how in so many cases, this stuff goes by the wayside or isn't really delved into or talked about much. You can count on imo part o f the reason is just like Epstein but on a smaller scale it's because of the number of people around Alex and even beyond were recipients of his generosity or throwing money around. I mean I don't think just one or two people were attending his hooker and booze and all out parties. I am trying to remember where that came from, but I believe it to be likely true (imo). We know or can believe Paul spent big and was the type to just like dad be impressing his friends, show he had money and show he had more than anyone around him and anywhere. I don't doubt Maggie and Buster did the same but weren't so brash about it. They attended big games, family vacations, clothing, etc. I'm sure every time Paul had a traffic ticket or car accident, hands were probably greased. Were there two residences or three? I'm thinking three--Moselle, the beach house Maggie stayed at and a main residence? Just maintaining Moselle which wasn't even lived in on any regular basis (was it?) would be costly imo. Property taxes, a housekeeper, probably someone to do the grounds, you name it. He lived or wanted to a life that did not fit his income. I'm surprised he never tried to run for some big office but then the man was lazy like many a glutton. The only time imo he moved fast and made a lot of effort was in the murders and that was necessary.
Finally add in the drug habit. You know I've seen absolutely no evidence he was an addict of any kind with drugs. Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't. It was an instant and convenient excuse when the heat came down to go to treatment and claim such, a common "rich" or "famous" person act to get out of things and blame it on an addiction. There was talk of with the housekeeper thing that drugs were found and Maggie and Paul confronted him or were going to or something like that. That still doesn't mean HE was the one taking the pills BUT I can believe it too, undecided. He could have been selling them, providing them to someone, etc. IF true.
I think Alex likely never lived within his means in his life. I doubt he ever balanced a checkbook or made a budget not even in his early years. Just like Paul, he was raised never having to. I doubt he and Maggie ever had lean years starting out in marriage because they never adulted or had to, at least he never did. The name and money was all of it. They lived as they wanted and when he realized the money was not covering something, he got the bank to let him overdraft to an extreme point, he used the name and the power. He stole. He this, he that. I doubt he EVER knew I need xxx amount of dollars next month to cover the light bill, groceries, the property taxes and I have xxx amount of dollars and can expect xxx amount of dollars in my income next month. Never in his life I believe did he know these things or care to.
I'll stop. Sorry but this is going to be a post you'll have to scroll a lot on a phone to read all. LOL.
