| ▲ | tptacek 4 days ago |
| Fraud is almost definitionally not a civil matter. There is civil fraud, but it bears the same relationship to fraud as the Goldman's wrongful death case did to the OJ criminal case. |
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| ▲ | terminalshort 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| I'm not talking about technical definitions. The fact is that if you have a fraud case in the USA, there's a 99% chance civil court is the only place it's ever going to be filed. |
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| ▲ | tptacek 4 days ago | parent [-] | | From where do you draw that statistic? | | |
| ▲ | terminalshort 4 days ago | parent [-] | | It's not a statistic. It's my personal experience in business and what my lawyers have told me. The 99% is just a number I pulled out of my ass to mean "basically always." If I were going to put money on it, though, I would say it's actually an understatement. Do you have any statistics? | | |
| ▲ | tptacek 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Yes: the DOJ reports on things like qui tam cases and on total recoveries from all criminal fraud cases, and I think you have the ratio flipped. | | |
| ▲ | terminalshort 4 days ago | parent [-] | | The DOJ??? Are you even trying to be serious here claiming the feds are getting involved in anything more than a vanishingly small percentage of fraud claims? |
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