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Originally posted by SR
Sorry still don't believe these numbers
Not saying they didn't make that amount of money but not just with online porn.
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In all honesty, neither do I. The attorney in me just loves to get on the other side of an argument, even when the other side is tenuous at best. I do think that the Crescent scam was of epic proportions but the numbers being pushed by the Feds do indeed raise eyebrows.
The main reason I distrust numbers from law enforcement is their historical preference of inflating dollar amounts to give their busts more credibility. My favorite is when they take a drug bust (for example 100 kilos of coke) and they then give a dollar amount to the bust based on what that coke would sell for cut up 4 times and sold per gram on the street. When I use to work doing criminal defense we once had a case where a defendant had 4 pot plants in his trunk and the police originally charged him based on the weight of the plants including the dirt in the pail. It was ridiculous and the state attorney on the case plead the case down dramatically with very little prodding. Meanwhile the newspaper report had the police confiscating "55 lbs of marijuana" from our clients car . High-larious it was (except for the poor sap charged).