The Unequal Scales of Justice? The Roulette Wheel of Fines, Penalties, Disgorgements and Jail Time #112

Summary: You do the crime, you do the time – so they say, but sometimes punishments for identical crimes are unequal and even puzzling. Let us start with the case of Charles C. Liu and Xin Wang, a married couple and U.S. citizens in California, who raised over $27 million USD from Chinese companies claiming they were going to use these investments to build a cancer treatment center.