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Oklahoma Man Hacked US Government Site To Buy Cars At Auction For $1
Oklahoma Man Hacked US Government Site To Buy Cars At Auction For $1 (nbcnews.com) 30
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on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:34AM from the everything-must-go dept.A U.S. government auction site was breached by an Oklahoma man, reports NBC News. So when it came time to pay up on his winning bids, he "falsified the true auction price to $1," according to the U.S. attorney's office.
He defrauded the government out of more than $150,000 between Jan. 31 and March 21, 2019, the indictment alleges. Included in the $1-buys were a 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid, for which Coker submitted a bid of $8,327; a Ford F550 pickup, with a bid of $9,000; and a Chevrolet C4500 box truck, bid $22,700; the U.S. attorney's office said... Nineteen items in all were bought through the auctions, according to prosecutors. Coker used eight accounts and pre-paid debit cards with very little balances to make the purchases, the indictment says.
"Coker was indicted on three counts of wire fraud in March 2023 and pleaded guilty to one count Wednesday, according to court records." Thanks to Slashdot reader Thelasko for sharing the news.
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No he wasn't. George Floyd was murdered on the fact he was mishandled by a police officer. The $20 bill has nothing to do with it.
No we didn't. Some of us look at more than 2-3 data points to draw a trend. Also where in the story does it say the person was "destroyed"? By all accounts he was peacefully arrested and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and will likely go to jail for a few years as a result.
On behalf of people with a brain can I say fuck you for comparing that with George Floyd.
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Nice attempt at flamebait. (I wonder how much the world would be a better place with you being dead.)
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Who gives a shit? None of that means he should have been murdered by completely incompetent police. It doesn't matter where you are in the US, All Cops Are Bad, and they always will be. Even if they helped you previously. Even if you were childhood friends with them. None of that matters. They want to be respected and then do nothing to earn that respect. Their job and uniform do not immediately somehow grant that respect. They can only earn respect by doing the right things - every. single. time. Not some
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So you're saying Floyd was actually murdered by the FDA and their failure to maintain drug dosage and purity standards?
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So, which of those items deserves the death penalty? Why?
Would the same reasoning for that it deserving the death penalty be valid for, let's say, a middle-class suburban person of, er, a "more mainstream" ethnicity, caught with it in their system? If yes, kudos for the consistency. If not, why not?
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thanks for existing and being such a great human being to counter balance
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Heâ(TM)s right thoughâ¦
And look at you and your morality! Wishing someone dead; classy!-
Wishing someone dead is trivial. Acting on that wish is another matter. Writing *is* an action, but not usually a very significant one.
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Found the racist sack of bootlicking garbage.
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What you say is true (except, possibly, the "all police procedures"), but that doesn't excuse their actions.
You don't have to like someone to think that murdering them without a trial is wrong.
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You mean unlike having to put up $454 million after committing fraud [cbsnews.com]? And going up by $100,000 per day it's not paid?
Or going to jail for committing fraud of over $1 million [irs.gov]?
Or being sentenced to 150 years in jail [bbc.com] after running a ponzi scheme?
While not every fraudster gest their due, in many cases they have to give up their money and generally serve jail time for their money crimes. That people continue to hire them after their release says more about those hiring than the criminal.
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Those crimes involved other rich people.
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To be fair, it's hard to steal $1M from a guy who only has $1.
Them getting busted still points out that rich people get busted for financial stuff all the time too. They aren't immune.
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Trump stole millions from poor people, and they still vote for him. Not to mention, they still give him more money. Because he is a supposed billionaire who desperately needs money.
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Well, I hate to use an argument some Republicans are fond of, but poor people are often poor for a reason, namely not so good mental facilities. Poor Republican voters are essentially doing it to themselves. I do not think exploiting them in this way is morally acceptable, but Republican politicians as a group have no qualms using those mental limitations against their own voters.
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Well it was 150,000 $1's not 1 and he wasn't destroyed he was rightly arrested and prosecuted. George Floyd's death had nothing to do with the $20, apart from him being a druggie and career criminal the world is probably a better place without him, BUT that doesn't justify the way the police treated him.
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