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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

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A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It happens occasionally although you are more or less correct. My state's old governor was the CEO of a company that committed at the time the largest healthcare fraud in US history.

Instead of going to jail he became the governor.

So ya I see your point. I would still of course be hesitant to push my luck and ignore a subpoena. Pushed hard enough, they will get ya. Look at how Epstein was eventually out in jail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suppose mainly it's about money and power. It's rare for someone really wealthy to suffer serious consequences. Before Epstein went to prison, he got a ridiculous deal from the guy who was later Trump's Sec of Labor, Acosta, where he had to report to prison each night but was out for 12 hours a day or something... since, you know, his work is so important because he was wealthy.

I'm not sure about individuals, but a company can be sanctioned in various ways for ignoring a subpoena... usually something like being prohibited to operate in a state, or being dissolved. Fairly unlikely that would happen to a company the size of facebook. I guess I'm not sure whether a subpoena like the one in the article is addressed to a corporation in general, a department of the company, or an individual?