Gotta admit, didnt expect him to just stop paying right after his identity was revealed. I would have expected that when he still had the illusion of being anonymous, but you'd think the smart thing to do with your ID out there, is continue payments (and increase your skimming) until you came up with some cover story or you had your tickets to costa rica in hand.
it's a very foolish way to play it by simply not paying out.
up until this point, the crime was a deceitful and fraudulent delusion that the scheme would work for 5 years and beyond... taking the 'payouts' to himself implies intent and pre-meditation.
quite a difference in the eyes of a court - most people don't realise, being foolishly deceitful whilst thinking they can run a HYIP scheme is one thing, actually committing the end crime by halting the payouts to investors, is quite another.
if one were Jason, one would be shitting oneself at this moment in time.
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