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Old Sep 13, 2020, 11:02 am
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Thanks platbrownguy for posting the PACER doc and for the concise summary.

This certainly seems to be a slam dunk case of wire fraud under the statute. The root cause of this crime is apparently AA having an idiotic IT system. This wasn't a sophisticated or brilliant crime that required some criminal mastermind to figure out. This is one of those situations where it should be "tough dogie" for AA. They made an obvious mistake, and they should bear the loss. Taxpayer money should not be spent to help AA recover their loss. This should be treated as a civil matter, and the feds should focus on more important cases.

I'm still sickened to see yet another case of the feds are doing the airlines' dirty work, rather than fighting for real justice in important cases. The US Attorneys' limited resources should not be spent bailing out the airlines because their IT system let this guy get away with something so easily preventable.
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