Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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    Now that this has come to light, surely the law will be followed and the will be consequences!

    The issue is that many american prosecutors are absolute cowards.

    In other countries, some prosecutors actually do their job. The headquarters of the ruling Spanish Political party was just raided by prosecutors and the police.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spanish-police-enter-ruling-party-hq-corruption-probe-2025-06-20/

    Why do US prosecutors simply refuse to do their job? You break the law. You get criminally prosecuted. It’s not that hard.

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      Because win rates matter. If a prosecutor loses a bunch of cases everyone will assume they are wasting money and demand a new one. And/Or they are politizing the law to fulfill the agenda of another party or personal vendetta.

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        So basically:

        Prosecutors are minmaxxing the meta, bro!

        Can’t expect the arbiters of the law to have principles and integrity and shit, that’s unrealistic!

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      now that it is finally put to the test, cowardice seems to be an American trait not limited to prosecutors…

      sadly it turns out that the USA is full of chicken hawks