Limo Boss Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison Over Deadly Crash 

I see nothing wrong with it, it's not like it was intentional. Harsher penalties don't reduce crime. Preventative action does.

@@samuelbekele3601It’s definitely intentional if he was going 60 miles an hour. Also, knowing that car wasn’t supposed to be operated is also intentional. The number one reasoning for this behavior is complacency. He just didn’t care. Also, the law requiring longer sentences has been effective in lowering crime. Within three years, crimes covered by the law fell an estimated 8 percent. Seven years after the law changed, these crimes were down 20 percent. In recent years, almost every state has adopted some form of "sentence enhancements" as a way to fight crime. These laws come under a variety of names including "three strikes and you're out," determinate sentencing laws, and repeat-offender enhancements. Regardless of the name, they all share one common feature: stiffer punishments for offenders committing the most serious crimes.

@@HOOLITHEWORLD You can't prove it was intentional beyond a reasonable doubt, you're just speculating. Crime rates have been going down for decades, attributing harsher sentencing over the past seven is illogical.

@@samuelbekele3601 Both the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a roughly 30% increase in the U.S. murder rate between 2019 and 2020, marking one of the largest year-over-year increases ever recorded. Less punishment for these crimes have gone down meaning crime will rise significantly look at Chicago that should be proof on it’s own just a while back kids were wrecking havoc on the suburbs of Chicago nothing was done and what did they do they did worse crimes and more crimes on top of what they were already doing. Los Angeles/ San Francisco Theft is crazy out there no harsh punishments means more crime increase nothing is being done which means what more crime is going to continue that’s just basic common sense.

@Jason Shoots True. Just pure negligence, but that doesn’t excuse the lack of punishment.

It should be 50!!!!

Why not 20 for 20?

@@TheGoldNinja101 Too small!

​@@isabella6075At least it's a fair number. Would 20 life sentences for 20 people too large? Why not put him inside a limo inside a prison cell for 20 years?

@@TheGoldNinja101 True that’s a good idea

funny incident*

@Carl Weezer 🤣

I swear if i see more "my condolences" or "sending my thoughts and prayers" comment, i'll visibly rage 😡

@@CM-dx6xu 🤣 So good👍 I prefer the humorous sarcastic postings rather than the obvious, and never-ending, "We're sorry" ones🙄 Maybe the car's mechanics didn't graduate😉

Yeah, he got off easy

God bless him for doing the obvious?

@@420hotbox36 not many Judges do the obvious, Captain Obvious.

@@420hotbox36 Do you know how many dont?

I think you meant threw _out_ a plea deal.

it’s a shame, this guy got away with just 5 - 15 years because he is rich. The limo didn’t even have useable seatbelts

It was not due to weather issues- his brakes went out but he ignored truck ramps specifically there for that situation and smashed directly into parked traffic without even trying to swerve. Plus his term already got shortened to 10 years.

@@carebare996 okay thanks for the update but 15 years is still not enough for 20 lives lost and 10 years for killing 4 people is not enough too. It should be 45 years or something like that.

@@ronaldokee3084 Exactly

​@@carebare996 you're amazing thank you for the facts

Apples and oranges. This man has nothing to do with deaths directly. He is simply accused of not maintaining vehicle/brakes when he should have. But, because he was "negligent " in maintaining brakes, ACCIDENT occurred resulting in death. It doesn't matter 0 killed or a 100. The incident of not maintaining brakes is still one count. He had no intention nor wilful wishes to kill.

he had no intention in murdering them, just happened to be poor management of the maintenance side of his business.

​@@mathmanchris666 still his fault for not testing it beforehand.

​@@mathmanchris666 I agree with you.

@@mathmanchris666 nah, he knew the vehicle was unsafe and still rented it out knowingly

5 years and 20 people is 3 months per casualty

3 months per life 5 years 20 people

sad.....

Yeah he should spend his life in jail because there was a failure of the breaks. Doesn't make any sense. He's a victim too.

​@@BenWinder108 He was cheap. He should've kept up with maintenance costs. His negligence is what caused the tragedy

He was the solo survived driver ??? Oh He was not the driver

​@@headstonesandheadlines the law also requires seat belts.....so they should be in limos too

Happened about 45 mins from me and when I heard it I was in awh. Don't really hear about anything from upstate ny besides gang related murders every now and then tbh.

He kept the limo on the road knowing that it had maintenance issues because he didn't want to spend the money to have the repairs made and he was greedy. A 15 year prison sentence wasn't enough. He should spend 20+ years in jail, 1 year for each life lost. There's been accidents with Uber and Lyft drivers also. Just because you're a passenger doesn't guarantee your safety. They're cars may have maintenance issues as well and they arent exempt from human error either. Condolences to the family and friends who suffered a tremendous loss of their loved ones. I hope they sued the pants off of this limo co.

This sentence is an INSULT to the families whose loved ones were STOLEN from them. Absolutely deplorable!!!!!

Clash of cultures, "the disciplined law abiding" against "non emphatic selfish behavioral". I do not understand how it is possible that previous he was sentences to community service. Still 15 years is nothing compared to the lose of 20 souls. To my opinion it is the most severe form of "giving a s**t and don't care about others in a manner that makes it murder. He know the risks, but still chose to ignore it, that makes it murder in my book.

Due to his negligence and not keeping up with maintenance costs

Swarm streak

ya i dont remember this either. insane that there were 0 survivors in that limo, what a scene that must have been,

I don't know how I didn't hear about this.

Goes to show that there's lot of horrible things out there you never hear about.

Same. Horrible case :(

its gonna be 5 years

And minimum of 5 years . 20 people dead !!

Any safety tips for if I ever ride in the back of a limo?

It was an accident. The guy had faulty brakes and couldn't stop. Now he's getting fifteen years for an accident

@@geoffreyjett600they shouldn’t have used the limo, it was supposed to be on for maintenance

Yes, he wasn’t a driver but he let his driver drove a limo that wasn’t safe to be on the road. He at least deserved a year for each life. No matter how many years he spends in a prison or even if gets killed still not a worthy of what those families went through. Never enough.

​@@aydarusjamai Sure looks like a limo was never designed with safety in mind. What happens if the brakes simply failed on that day? Accidents happen with other vehicle types too, but people survive because of seat-belts, airbags, structural integrity from factory etc. A limo is just an unsafe vehicle. If anything, the regulators should be the one to go to jail. If the limo boss was caucasian this case would probably would have taken a different turn.

When one owns a transportation company such as this Limo service, the owner is required by law to have the vehicle, or vehicles maintained and serviced, and inspected by a outside company showing annual maintenance reports on record along with company insurance and vehicle insurance. The owner probably did not comply or was negligent in some of these categories.. The owner knew the Limo had faulty brakes and still sent the Limo out for parties and jobs.

Speed is ultimately what caused such a catastrophic loss of life.

Yeah, I didn't get that and especially when it's done by a reputable news outfit.

He knew the vehicles needed work but was being cheap and didn't fix them if I recall correctly the vehicle wasn't registered or inspected. Which he knew and didn't want to pay to get it fixed or buy a new vehicle. Yet again this was Year ago I can't remember exactly 😔

He knew the limo had bad brakes, but drove it anyway. It's literally his fault.

@@peps1943 did he actually know the brakes were faulty? I’ve never heard of the story before, so I don’t know anything about the details.

Go look up any information. It's free. This guy was notorious for not maintaining his vehicles. It wasn't an unfortunate accident. It was negligence. There's a huge difference.

He didnt drive it. The driver was killed. He was the owner.@@peps1943

not intent, but negligent

you got it. all the comments saying 15 isn't enough...he aint gonna be doing 15, 10 at the most

Social media and poor critical thinking skills in the US mean people don’t think to have sympathy or compassion, even for those who make mistakes. Nor do they care for restraint or nuance.

Technically he indirectly did because he didn’t keep the vehicles that he owned maintained no?

@@BlackBeavis She's just trying to make a distinction between "killing" someone versus "murdering." I'm American, and I agree with you 100% @Ali

Only desert thinking can say that, how chiIdish to support someone that took so many lives just because share the same path, if anything this was affected by his ego the whole time and yes it was murder and a catastrophe not an accident.

the driver is dead. he is the boss of the driver (who is dead) and the owner of the limo (company)

It's not like he did it on purpose. You also can't tell everything that's gonna go wrong with a car. The dude's driving in its breaks go out and people die. It's horrible but people have accidents every day. That is a lot of time for something that was not intentional and he probably is gonna have to deal with it already the rest of his life.

@@geoffreyjett600 You take responsibility for maintenance when owning a business and ripping peopIe off.

Yes that’s what they proved, he absolutely knew.

He was a cheap bastard and didn't pay for vital repairs to his vehicles

@@headstonesandheadlines So a limo that has functional brakes but doesn't have seatbelts is otherwise fit to be driving on the road?

It's possible that he was speeding because the brakes gave out.

@@kiciacoldspring1621 now that I think back on this case, I think you're right. The limo was going downhill and couldn't slow down or stop, so the driver might not be at fault

he wasn't the driver, so why it matters if he was drunk. he was the company's boss.