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[–] [email protected] 56 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Wait where is is that the compensation will not be provided? This was the first time I heard this

[–] HowManyNimons 99 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It wasn’t even a lot of money. It was practically a pittance, loose change in the sofa to these people.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

He didn't tip off the right agency. AND the reward depends on a conviction, not an arrest. AND he gets a proportion of the reward depending on how instrumental his info was in the case being solved.
(AND the poor are just tools to those in power.)

Edit: or so I gathered.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wooooow so because be called 911 instead of the feds he gets nothing..

... And of course they already said hours before the call they were "closing in" (they weren't)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago

He called 911 and thereby gave that Lotto ticket to a bigger Judas

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp 9 points 21 hours ago

Might? It was never a question, they're not paying him.