Three men who have worked as Republican political operatives agreed to pay more than $50,000 in restitution and penalties in Ohio for their roles in operating a phony charity that collected cash purportedly to help victims of the East Palestine train derailment.

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    1 year ago

    they collected $149k, donated $10k to the food back and kept the rest. now the DA is making them pay $50k. which leaves $89k net profit? seems like a lucrative business model.

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    Three scuzzbuckets get a slap on the wrist, with zero criminal accountability, and will surely, definitely, continue to offend? This is news?

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    1 year ago

    Surely this is in addition to paying back or donating the $139,000 in donations they kept for themselves, right?

    …right?

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    How are those folks doing? Haven’t heard anything since the incident. Any surging cases of disease?

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        Not really. Unless you drank straight from the river after derailment or stayed during cleanup, there is no way anyone will have problems because of it. Unlike radiation, chemicals, after being heavily diluted, become harmless within days.

        It’s like if you poured out a bottle of bleach in your garden. You won’t worry about the tomatoes becoming poisonous when you pick them the next year.