This is why they've been running nonstop ads about their "code of ethics" and how they help the community. The ads have been run practically on loop for several weeks in English and Spanish. At first I was just like, what a joke, tell that to 2007. But then it was just getting weird how often the ads would play...now I know why. They must have known this was coming to light.
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PR is a profitable business to be in. There's always someone or some company that needs to rehabilitate their public image.
Eh, worked in advertising and pr for a decade, it’s as soul crushing and immoral as being a lawyer, but for 1/4 the pay.
I'm sure someone somewhere is making a pretty penny on spinning this stuff
Aww cute. Widdle old man steppies down.
Are they going to pay the people they’ve ripped off? If not then fuck off.
Lol. This guy has the audacity to try and claim he’s stepping down because that was his plan all along. Has nothing to do with his cartoonish level of greed and the billion dollar crime he helped commit.
I’ve been thinking about how it’s a good thing we don’t follow ancient systems of justice anymore, you know the whole drawn and quartered, iron bull type justice. Totally barbaric and inhumane, glad it doesn’t exist anymore (well, in this country anyway). But you know what? Those systems of justice were especially designed for shitdicks like this. We used to get real creative with how we handled people that just abused the shit out of large groups of people. And when your co conspirator ends up with half of his torso on a stake in the public square, you think fucking twice about committing a billion dollars worth of fraud.
I’m joking of course, but these over the top crimes simply go unanswered and these ghouls more often than not just walk free and get to pretend like nothing happened. It’s why we have the entire trump crime family walking around like they did nothing wrong. Yeah, when it’s that level of greed and arrogance, forgive me for wanting to see the people step in and handle it old world style.
I really wish crimes like these were punished proportionately. Forcing poverty on people is violence and it shouldn't be possible to duck responsibility. So often they just go somewhere else and run another scam.
And that’s the thing. Yeah on paper this guy only committed you know, a few hundred million dollars worth of crime. No biggie. But what’s the downstream effect of that? A single mother couldn’t afford a house that should have been affordable so had to move to a poverty stricken area. She no longer had access to a safe and reliable grocery store so her kids get sick more often. Her son missed a lot of school from illness so he fell behind. With poor grades he lost his chance of higher education and eventually due to proximity got in with a gang. He dies at 17 in gang violence. Can you directly tie the two together? Not in a court of law, but that’s the reality with shit like this.
Violent punishment is less effective in deterring actions than a certainty of being caught and nonviolently punished. We need less bronze bulls and more fines exceeding gains by significant factors and rehabilitation periods that land every single time someone burns some of the commons for personal profits.
Those systems of justice were especially designed for shitdicks like this.
I thought it was for the Catholics/Protestants/Other-type-of-Protestants?
Well pick your time in history. The muslim nations had their version, Christian nations had theirs. And so on. Again it’s good we don’t adhere to the old ways anymore (which if we are being honest we just rebranded all of that and made it more palatable). But at least back then if you were just a massively unpopular dickbag who fucked over lots of people you got a little street justice. Hell the Romans would erase you from history. We don’t even know all of the people that got this treatment since again, they were erased from history.
I’d love nothing more than to scrub the trump name from history and we all pretend they never existed.
Corporate death penalty 2024
It's weird because I just assumed the whole point of an association of realtors, or really any trade, would be to collude. I just assumed it was happening but not a crime since it would be the primary operating function of the organization as a whole, yet it was allowed to exist.
Good. I am glad they are finally being called out for the inherent conflict of interest of buyers agents getting paid a percentage of the sale, motivating them to make the price higher. Not to mention the clear antitrust issues of only realtors getting MLS access.
The whole industry is awful. Even as home prices skyrocket, they still demand the same percentage. Some realtors only need to make a few sales a year to make 6 figures. With the internet and some simple research, their advice is redundant. If only an antitrust suit would force them to open the MLS, they would be truly redundant. As it is now, there are several places you can list your home, but many buyers sadly only check the MLS.
Steps down 1 month before he was already scheduled to step down.
Funny we're just a couple months out from the president resigning: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/realestate/national-association-of-realtors-sexual-harassment.html
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