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@coffeezilla ?? Investigate bootcamp fraud

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u/michaelnovati replied ·
I had the same idea! He's good at digging! One challenge is bootcamps are full of completely independent entities and Coffeezilla is good at digging into individual people/stories. Another challenge is he's good at digging into people who are likely doing illegal things but there isn't enough evidence yet to escalate the issue. Bootcamps aren't clearly violating laws. Fraud is a high bar and involves intentions - which is fuzzy - and hard to factually prove. In civil cases the bar is more likely than not and for criminal.violations it's beyond a reasonable doubt. It's very hard to prove that. So l think you would need to show him a piece of very strong evidence of fraud so he could successfully dig and grow that into something stronger to make a good episode, rather than waste time digging into ambiguity. I was thinking a documentary might be the more appropriate format.