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Criminal convictions are typically accompanied by asset forfeitures. No, you don't generally get to keep the proceeds from crimes you're convicted of.


Unless you work in finance.


That's pretty much any "respectable" industry really. The government will usually take their cut, but it'll be far less than the profit a company's illegal actions brought in, and the victims of the activity get shafted instead of being made whole.


And if you didn't pay taxes on your illegal income the feds get you for tax evasion too, like how they got Al Capone.




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