There’s a pretty good explainer here on sentencing guidelines for wire fraud.
[Amount of loss] in excess of $100 million can add 26 points to the base level of six, lifting the guideline range 32, with a sentencing range of between 121 and 151 months.
If the government finds that the defendant used mass marketing to perpetuate the fraud, the guidelines increase by two levels.
I would guess she’s looking at something like 8 or 9 years, but LOL LAW so who knows.
Man I don’t know that I’ve ever done a 180 on a guy faster and more violently than Rodgers.
Ayn Rand = locker room poison imo.
Anyone following the situation in VA? Seems like people are going to start dying before too long if they can’t get to shelter.
https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/1478357477158756352?s=21
Yea it’s pretty wild. Kind of a perfect storm of less-than-usual warning for a snowstorm that produced more-than-normal snow that hit with faster-than-normal accumulation during a rush hour full of drivers who aren’t experienced with snow driving.
is it just snow or more of an ice problem? Guy just sitting in his car for 19 hours is baffling to me, how is he not out of gas? Do people get out and wander around like some apocalyptic zombie movie scene or just sit there for an entire day? Collect snow melt for a water source?
We need an MS Paint thread 
- although this is apparently photoshop - but real nonetheless
They’re rationing supplies as best they can, but surely they can’t hold out too much longer.
Needs more pyramids, IMO.
It was tractor-trailers having problems that started everything, and they should know how to drive in the snow. So that points directly to the plow guys not being prepared/good enough/numerous enough to keep the roads safe.
Also, it seems it was only hundreds of people, not the entire metro area.
I should tell my mother to move to DC. She doesn’t go out of the house if one flake of snow is forecast, and that looks like the appropriate behavior down there.
surprised Trump hasn’t issued a statement about how this never happened when he was president
The people responsible in St. Fracois County should be sentenced to watch this video 100 times:
Can someone explain Elvis to me? Of all the famous historic musicians he seems to stand alone at having no great music and no songs that carry any modern pop culture significance. Nobody ever mentions his name but somehow we have all been trained to think of him as some kind of icon on the same plane, or even higher, than people like Dylan, the Beatles, or Billie Holiday.
I don’t think I have ever heard another musician mention him as an influence.
It’s some kind of mass social delusion.
The hips don’t lie.
Early Elvis was pretty incredible.
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, etc all cited him as an influence…
Musically maybe some of his stuff sounds dated to you because it is almost 70 years old or maybe it sounds derivative because so many people were influenced by him and then evolved the form into something you find more appealing?
I think the key word from your post is icon. Beyond his music, I think Elvis set a model for fame, cultural resonance, and promotional machinery that other folks have consistently tried to copy, from the fashion to the acting to the Vegas residencies.
Elvis was very charismatic for starters. He was a pop phenomenon as much as he was a musician.
His music was actually pretty good as well but it was especially noteworthy at the time - he added elements of spectacularly good black southern music into country / white pop music and it was a revelation for millions of white people that previously listened to the musical equivalent of unseasoned potato salad.
I also don’t agree that he had no good songs. He could really sing, and over time he performed with some of the best studio musicians in Nashville. There’s lots of good Elvis music.