> Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, faces felony charges of luring a child with a computer for a sex act
> He has since evidently been released from custody and returned to Israel.
That is a terrifying level of criminal impunity. If I was an Israeli citizen, I wouldn't feel very safe knowing these sorts of people are protected by the government.
Normally (at least in the US) intelligence personnel are heavily vetted for this sort of thing, as a pretty obviously vector for blackmail etc. I wonder if the role, apparently "executive director of the Israel Cyber Directorate" did not need a real security clearance, or if it just wasn't detected?
More seriously, I have worked for a few years as a consultant in upper government and here's how it works: the upper levels of government know what they're doing. But there is a level where it switches from career bureaucrats to appointees and elected officials. You can CLEARLY tell exactly where this line is without having to look anything up). You can also clearly tell by the pay. The difference between levels is like 10-30% per level, then the level where it switches to mostly appointees there's a 200% jump and then a 500% jump where it switches to elected officials. Or that's how it works in the EU.
Did you know that most governments have strict pay levels? Which suck for any position other than parliamentarian or government minister, and even there ... Which has the funny consequence that as a EU safety inspector, the director level (which is an appointed position) you make more than the German chancellor. Not too far from the French president either (not including side benefits, like the housing). Which I guess it what leads to people like the current French president, because the idea that he wants that position for the prestige, or out of patriottism is just completely absurd. One can wonder what the guy does want. But, I guess the same is true of Trump ...
So they let a guy charged with a felony who was an obvious flight risk out on a $10k bond, didn't even take his passport, and he just hopped on his return flight home? What a joke. Israel does not extradite, so he's effectively home-free now.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 33.9 ms ] thread> He has since evidently been released from custody and returned to Israel.
That is a terrifying level of criminal impunity. If I was an Israeli citizen, I wouldn't feel very safe knowing these sorts of people are protected by the government.
(Also unclear why he would have been released)
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-education-chief-linda-mcmahon-rep...
More seriously, I have worked for a few years as a consultant in upper government and here's how it works: the upper levels of government know what they're doing. But there is a level where it switches from career bureaucrats to appointees and elected officials. You can CLEARLY tell exactly where this line is without having to look anything up). You can also clearly tell by the pay. The difference between levels is like 10-30% per level, then the level where it switches to mostly appointees there's a 200% jump and then a 500% jump where it switches to elected officials. Or that's how it works in the EU.
Did you know that most governments have strict pay levels? Which suck for any position other than parliamentarian or government minister, and even there ... Which has the funny consequence that as a EU safety inspector, the director level (which is an appointed position) you make more than the German chancellor. Not too far from the French president either (not including side benefits, like the housing). Which I guess it what leads to people like the current French president, because the idea that he wants that position for the prestige, or out of patriottism is just completely absurd. One can wonder what the guy does want. But, I guess the same is true of Trump ...
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