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Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY
Fri, January 8, 2021, 11:03 PM EST
... Bradley Rukstales, CEO of marketing consultancy Cogensia, has reportedly acknowledged entering the Capitol during the riots ...
Cogensia had placed him on a leave of absence, but by Friday evening, it issued a statement that the board of directors terminated him effective immediately ...
The Capitol Police confirmed that it arrested Rukstales on Wednesday on a charge of unlawful entry ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporting-chicago-ceo-arrested-134126225.html
lapfog_1
(31,979 posts)some will serve time but most will not... jury nullification if they get one or two MAGAts on their trials.
But, whether they serve time or not, most will seek employment someplace else... and we need to remind potential future employers who these assholes really are.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(2,021 posts)They should be unemployable, held to account, pariahs from society.
BrightKnight
(3,684 posts)hatrack
(65,138 posts)Fullduplexxx
(8,633 posts)What a load of bullsht "I followed hundreds of others through an open set of doors to the Capitol building to see what was taking place inside,
What a sanitized bullsht version of what he did . He's not taking reaponsibility . He just described himself as simply a lemming running with the group
LeftInTX
(34,852 posts)Sorry about the source, but I don't believe a word! Get me a whamulance!
hatrack
(65,138 posts)Everything else followed from that.
BainsBane
(57,779 posts)North Shore Chicago
(4,256 posts)So pleased your punishment was swift!
My beautiful city of Chicago already smells better.
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)how many of these criminals arrested were not the garden variety basement dwelling shut-ins, but people ingrained within parts of our mainstream society. People running businesses really got nothing better to do with their time and are this impressionable? Sad.
bucolic_frolic
(55,808 posts)6 months+ and a fine and restitution for the damage.
Gothmog
(182,006 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,384 posts)
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