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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Ok, we see Sterling is being punished. What about his girlfriend? Did she make the tape with the intention of collecting damaging evidence for her personal gain? If so why has the local District Attorney not pursued extortion charges. Fair is fair.
Checking the law, one's a felony and the other is legal.
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Becuase there's no evidence she ever tried to extort anythign from him. They could go after her for illegal wiretapping, but that what $1500 fine or something like that.
The DA isn't going after Donald Sterling either, that's where you people keep making fools of yourself. This isn't a criminal issue, being legal or not legal has nothing to do with anythiing. Its legal to smoke pot in CO, however if a NBA player smokes pot and fails a drug test he will be punished because he agreed to the terms set in the colective bargining agrreement when he signed his contract. Same as Donald Sterling agreed to the NBA by laws when he bought the franchise.
Its has nothing to do with freedom of speech, it has nothing to do with what is legal or not, it has nothign to do with how the conversation was record.. all it has to do with the NBA is a business, they are like McDonalds Corporation, yes you can buy a franchise BUT you have to agree to a franchise agreement to do so if you violate that agreement they are prefectly within their rights to take away your franchise. Which is all they are doing. (in fact Sterling already agreed that he couldn't take this issue to court based on the agreement he signed when buying the franchise... at least not the franchise termination part. He could sue the NBA on anti-trust grounds, but he woudl have easily lost that too)