GhostofBiedny
Celestial
Unless I'm mistaken a lot of the stuff he has done has broken civil not criminal law. The only punishment for that is financial. I'm also not 100% sure how bankruptcy violations and bankruptcy fraud are prosecuted. People do go to jail for tax shenanigans though.
However begging under false pretences is fraud which I do believe would be a criminal act - the issue is of resources. Most cons never get prosecuted by the authorities because they either don't find out about them, or even when they do they have a long list of others to deal with and limited resources.
The one thing that really does surprise me has slipped under the radar is the various shady corporations he has created including the one with his BIL because the authorities should have uncovered Gene's shenanigans when they were looking into those.
Also it is common for co-conspirators to snitch on each other when it looks like they are going to jail. One of my theories is that the BIL made some kind of deal with him to not spill the beans on Gene. Gene then tried to use his pet ebeg scam to raise money for his defence until that failed. Then when he came out jail Gene assisted him in starting up his new scams including bringing him on the Paracast as some kind of money expert and pretending they weren't related.
However begging under false pretences is fraud which I do believe would be a criminal act - the issue is of resources. Most cons never get prosecuted by the authorities because they either don't find out about them, or even when they do they have a long list of others to deal with and limited resources.
The one thing that really does surprise me has slipped under the radar is the various shady corporations he has created including the one with his BIL because the authorities should have uncovered Gene's shenanigans when they were looking into those.
Also it is common for co-conspirators to snitch on each other when it looks like they are going to jail. One of my theories is that the BIL made some kind of deal with him to not spill the beans on Gene. Gene then tried to use his pet ebeg scam to raise money for his defence until that failed. Then when he came out jail Gene assisted him in starting up his new scams including bringing him on the Paracast as some kind of money expert and pretending they weren't related.