Sunday, September 29, 2019

"Do you know a good prison consultant? Larry Levine teaches the super-rich how to survive supermax"

After the unpleasantness of 2007 - 2008 this should have been a growth industry but the politicians and the prosecutors chose not to go after the miscreants.
So no headlines like this from 2017:
Meanwhile, In Vietnam: 51 Bankers Found Guilty, Sentences From Life In Prison to Death

From The Economist's 1843 Magazine:

Larry Levine teaches the super-rich how to survive supermax
Meet Larry Levine, prison consultant. The man who teaches the super-rich how to survive supermax.

Why should I trust him? Because Larry has previous. And plenty of it. Former “efficiency expert” for the Mob. Former guest of 11 federal correctional institutions. Still a man you wouldn’t want to cross.

What did he do? You going to ask this many questions inside? Listen to Larry. Larry says: “Running your mouth in prison gets you a knife.”

Was he innocent? Larry puts it like this: “The prosecutor said I was killing people for the Mafia. Dropping them in the ocean. Killed one guy in Mexico and attended his funeral. All this crazy shit.”
So did he? 1843 put this question to Larry. Larry replied: “If you ask me ‘You really kill these people?’ I’d say: whaddayou think?” At which point 1843 thought it wise to move on.

Why would I need him? Naturally you say you didn’t do it, says Larry. In his experience white-collar criminals “are all innocent. They say: I didn’t do this.” To which Larry says: “OK, sure.” Then he tells them how not to get stabbed in the shower.

What are his top tips? Don’t cut in line. Don’t reach across someone’s food tray. Don’t switch channels on the telly without asking. Larry watched someone do this and another inmate promptly “stabbed him to death and killed him”. We all feel like that occasionally when “Love Island” is on.

Anything else? Above all, don’t borrow anything. Ever. Not shower shoes. Not shampoo. Nothing. “You don’t want to owe anyone in prison,” says Larry. “Because there is more than one way to pay your bill.”...MORE
Previously: 
Missouri Dept. of Corrections Censors Issue of The Economist, The Economist Responds
Absolute Return: Helping Hedge Funders Cope With Prison
"El Chapo" Guzman Being Sexually Harrased In Prison-Report
The ‘Oracle of San Quentin’: Stock Tips From the C-block
The Wall Streeter’s Guide to Going to Prison
In Prison, Bernie Madoff is Cornering the Market on Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate
"How to Run Your Hedge Fund From a Prison Cell"
Avenatti Charged In 36 Count Indictment, Facing 331 Years In Prison, Channels The Black Knight
FT Alphaville: Now With More Pamela Anderson
Hayek and the Mexican Mafia
Barry Minkow heads back to prison (ZZZZ)
And here I thought he was rehabilitated.
Not.
Financial fraudsters have a recidivism rate similar to that of pedophiles.