{"id":878,"date":"2015-04-29T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=878"},"modified":"2015-04-29T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:18:38","slug":"snitch-or-go-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/snitch-or-go-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Snitch&#8230; or Go to Prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know guys on their way to prison, currently in prison, out of prison and a lot who never got caught.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, my former boss, Raj Rajaratnam, received 11 years, which, at the time, was the longest sentence ever handed down for violating insider-trading laws. But the people serving the longest sentences are those who cooperated with the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>On the streets, it&#8217;s called a snitch. Downtown, they call it an informant.<\/p>\n<p>And when the FBI decides they want you, they pounce quickly. They sneak up behind you while you&#8217;re in line at Starbucks and wait until it&#8217;s your turn to order. And then, when the cashier asks you how you take your coffee, they&#8217;ll answer for you: &#8220;Two sugars and cream\u2026 Can you come with us?&#8221; It&#8217;s a common tactic used by the authorities. Personally I know four people this has happened to \u2014 two at Starbucks, one at Dunkin Donuts and one at a Subway sandwich shop. And none of them had any idea it was coming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102631930\">Read Article at CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know guys on their way to prison, currently in prison, out of prison and a lot who never got caught. Four years ago, my former boss, Raj Rajaratnam, received 11 years, which, at the time, was the longest sentence ever handed down for violating insider-trading laws. But the people serving the longest sentences are &#8230; <a title=\"Snitch&#8230; or Go to Prison?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/snitch-or-go-to-prison\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Snitch&#8230; or Go to Prison?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}