You don't want guys like these in jail, since it's not clear they broke any laws. Those of you that think they did had better look deeper into the government's case, it was no more solid than the travesty they ran on Martha Stewart.
People lost money because they thought they could make gobs of money with no risk. They thought they were getting one over on someone else.
"You can't cheat an honest man" from the
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen.
This whole thing should have been a civil suit, not a criminal trial.