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_Maxolotl t1_ja6303o wrote

Gjim Shabaj has an IMDB credit for "Albanian Gangster", lol.

I was gonna say that I was glad to see law enforcement finally doing something about wage theft, but this isn't that. These dudes are goons. One already did time for grand larceny.

Seems pretty unlikely that we're gonna see a trend of local DA's actually targeting the more common forms of wage theft, which are all too often treated as a civil matter, when they shouldn't be.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_ja7ss80 wrote

Wouldn’t that make it harder to win wage theft cases?

Criminal cases can be dropped for a lot of non-merit reasons and require a “beyond any reasonable doubt” burden of proof.

Civil cases only require preponderance of evidence and don’t have strict timelines (such as speedy trial) or onerous discovery requirements on the plaintiff side.

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