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Man gets 7 1/2 years for robbing five Boston banks
By adamg on Fri, 06/29/2018 - 12:39pm
The US Attorney's office reports Thomas Nee, 47, was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison today for five Boston bank robberies last year that netted him all of $8,209.
Nee pleaded guilty last September to robbing four banks downtown and one in South Boston. In all five cases, he gave a teller a note demanding money.
His sentence will begin after he finishes an unrelated three-year sentence he is currently serving, the US Attorney's office reports.
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Incredibly light sentence
Incredibly light sentence
fun with numbers
I'm not saying I want bank robbers to go free - I'd like to be able to go to the bank and not have someone rob it while I'm there...
On the other hand, this guy stole a total of $8,209 - he gets 7 2/3 years at a 2016 cost of, say, $429,000.
Compare this to, say, John Stumpf who was CEO of Wells Fargo and oversaw the creation of millions of fake accounts for bank customers that came with real fees, made low-level employees take the fall for it (BTW - when you get fired from a bank, you get put in black-ball sort of database and you can kiss your career in banking goodbye) and was sent packing with a high 8-figure severance package and no jail time. It may not seem comparable, but effectively a bank robbed millions of people of illegal fees, ruined credit ratings of millions, and destroyed the careers of thousands. Something seems out of balance
Ah, finally!
A foil for O-Fish-L!
I feel the other way
He's only getting 18+ months per heist. I'm typically the one to point out that 18 months is not nothing, but that is 18 months per successful attempt to rob a bank. Hardly the level of deterrence.
The value based on what he stole is regardless. That his sentence works out to less than $100 per week in prison is on him. If he did a better job there'd have been better value, but the crime is what it is.
I will concede, though, that since he pled rather than going to trial, it is probably 5 concurrent 7 1/2 year sentences. Still, if he's before the bench again on this charge, I hope this sentence is remembered.
This guy is one of the biggest dirtbags around.
If you added up the amount of years this guy could have received in his lifetime, it is probably in the thousands, if not tens of thousands of years.
He is literally the type of person jails were made for. Even if there was no such thing as drugs or money, this POS would have found a way to hurt people.
I'm not disagreeing with you,
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I do think white collar criminals get off way to easy. John Stumpf should have been held to task for his doings. Instead he got to retire with his golden parachute. I just don't think that's right. How many financial execs went to jail following the mortgage crisis that tanked the market in 2008? Just one I believe. Maybe next time...
Here's the difference...
About Nee, "In all five cases, he gave a teller a note demanding money."
In the Wells Fargo case...he gave millions of people a note demanding money.
Ya, crooks like that...from a 2016 article, "The majority of Stumpf’s payday comes from some 2.4 million shares in the company that Stumpf earned over his years working at the company. That stake is worth $109.9 million based on Wednesday’s closing price.
Stumpf also has some $4.4 million from deferred compensation, and another $19.9 million in his pension account."
It was an intentional business decision to defraud people. Should he pay? I dunno, he was sure as hell calling the shots. maybe civil suits can help the defrauded. The statute of limitations should be still OK, it happened in 2016.
Precisely the logic the MBTA uses
Which is why fare evasion is such a big problem.
Nice
A little more than a year for each bank robbery. Nice to see bank robbing isn’t a serious crime in MA