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ORIGINAL: Reiryc
Nah... I hate the government (for among other reasons) because it has the monopoly on force. Disagree with the credit card company's final decision on an issue involving you and you can go to court over the issue to seek a remedy. Disagree with the government's final decision on an issue involving you and you will go to jail, then you can try to remedy the issue in court.
This is a half truth presented as a fact. In not all cases do you even go to jail once the final decision has been made and the courts are the government.
This was a fact in the types of cases in which one is sent to jail.
There was no half truth about it. I never stated that in all cases does one go to jail. However, in all cases, a credit card company can not put one in jail, but a government can.
The issues that credit card companies have with people are hardly the kind that entail jail time for public safety so your example seems to me to be more of a way to justify what you want to think than an actual reason to think it.
Actually one can go to jail for defrauding a credit card company.
The issues that credit card companies have with people can and at times do entail jail time. It seems to me be that you were more concerned with what you want to think than the actual reasons presented.
Recent example of jail time for credit card fraud:
Credit card fraud earns travel agent 10 years
By Mike Allen
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
FINCASTLE -- Just before Christmas 2006, Jim Jamison discovered his travel agent had charged $1,000 to his credit cards without his knowledge.
He called Donnie Hudgins to complain, saying he needed the money to buy presents for his grandchildren. Hudgins refunded only half the money.
As for the remaining $500, "I never got it back," Jamison testified.
Jamison wasn't Hudgins' only victim. Tuesday in Botetourt County Circuit Court, Judge Malfourd "Bo" Trumbo sentenced Hudgins to 10 years in prison, suspended after he serves three months in jail, for five convictions of credit card fraud. He also gave Hudgins 50 hours of community service.
Hudgins paid more than $5,200 in restitution for the crimes, but Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom said that was just a fraction of the money lost through Hudgins' company, Botetourt Travel and Tours. Investigators estimated that Hudgins' customers lost more than $100,000 on trips that never happened, the prosecutor said.
The Botetourt County Sheriff's Office began investigating Hudgins in May 2006 after receiving complaints from customers who paid for a fishing trip to Alaska that was canceled. The investigation revealed that Hudgins was taking customers' money for prepaid trips and spending it on other things, then trying to pay for previously booked trips with the next person's money, according to previous court testimony.
However, while most of the losses resulted from what Branscom described as reckless business practices, Hudgins crossed the line into illegal acts when he made unauthorized charges to customers' credit cards, the prosecutor said.
Hudgins, 60, took the stand in his own defense, saying he never intended to defraud his customers. When business started going bad, he began juggling funds in hopes he could catch up, he said.
Branscom noted that Hudgins continued his reckless business practices even after he knew he was under investigation.
Hudgins pleaded no contest in July to six felonies. Branscom dropped one of those counts Tuesday.
After the hearing, Jamison said he was glad Hudgins received jail time. "So many people have been hurt," he said. "He needed to feel some of the pain that we have."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/146372
