@ HG: Oh, so sorry that you have only a single lawyer, unlike your hero Homero who has a crack team. I guess you will have to struggle by and hope for the best with your paupers defense. So please, tell me, does your lawyer think the "I told the victims what I was doing and I gave the money back therefore it isn't a crime" strategy works with all crimes, or just the ones you have been engaged in? Let me put a scenario in writing just to see if it rings true:
"Yes, your honor, I robbed that bank. BUT, I called them up first and told them I was going to do it. And then, after I robbed them, I told everyone they were accomplices in my crime because I had told them I was going to do it. Then, a few weeks afterwards some people on the intertoobz told me that robbing banks was like all illegal and stuff, so I gave the money back and threatened that I would expose their part in my crime if they did not keep their traps shut. I also told them that because I told them I was going to rob them, that it wasn't really a crime at all, but just in case I hired this lawyer to defend me against something that was clearly not a crime at all. So you and your stupid laws and prosecutors and police and whatnot can all get in a great big pile and fuck yourselves. Uhmkay? Buhbyes, going home to play muh stolen ARMA 2 game all night now, laterz, chumpwads!"
I think this fictive courtroom plea is every bit as logically sound as your suggestion that some merchant (Carsen Klock??) can accept all 14 million XPY for $20 and that would fix the whole Paycoin scam.
but thats only 280 mil and rising
yes Mr. Gorzo has the money to pay for that
its even worse in your metaphor: he hires another group to do the same. except he cant return any money stolen down the ladder because he cant know of it
there were few people in nuremberg trials who were in same situations. they got the death penalty because of their cascade effect on minions. with out them they would have 'only' been jailed for life