What "white collar crime" was Brian Thompson guilty of? As I understand it, he was merely the CEO of an insurance company.

Nobody likes how insurance companies do business, but that doesn't make it "crime".

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polishdude20 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Its less about "crimes" and more about a moral or ethical boundary that people feel is being crossed.

	▲	culi 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah think of it as a moral crime. Someone can achieve tax evasion completely legally but that doesn't make it fair or right.

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wanderingjew 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What a crime is is determined by the population. For a very long time, the population has given the idea of a "justice system" to... Well, the justice system.

Things have deteriorated lately, and the population does not see the justice system as effective.

It is completely expected that we see vigilantism, but it is in no way extrajudicial.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Nobody likes how insurance companies do business, but that doesn't make it "crime".

The way they "delay, deny, defend" as a matter of course shows a lack of a good-faith execution of the insurance agreements, to the point that a sane world would understand it as extremely obvious (and documented!) fraud. Sure, it is de facto not fraud, but tell that to someone who didn't get insurance payments which they were owed to pay for life-saving treatments (or, I guess tell it to their grave).