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If Saunders hadn\u2019t reported himself or played hero, he might have been able to get away with money laundering. The Christian in him, though, eventually came through and won over. He wanted to be punished and he wanted to clear his conscience. He had been ordered to pay $250,000 in compensation by NAB, but this is nothing compared to how much he actually stole. He also spent the next 12 months in prison three and a half years after he discovered the loophole, but to many, this is a mere slap on the wrist compared to what he actually deserved. And while the punishment had been relatively easy, Saunders has fully prepared himself to wholly pay the consequences. As he said, \u201cI\u2019ve made my bed. I\u2019m fully prepared to lie in it.\u201d<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dan Saunders was a lonely bartender with $3 to his name. He was penny pinching every single day of his life because he had to. When he really needed the extra cash, he would use his credit card. That was his life \u2013 he couldn\u2019t afford to splurge. Life was expensive and he had no choice but to watch what he spent on. Then in February 2011, he decided to let loose one night and have a drink or two with his friends. This was when fate took a turn for the often hard-up 29-year old. He stumbled upon an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2420,1163,34678,483,34679,34681,34680],"yst_prominent_words":[9561,9866,9552,9558,9560,9553,9102,14783,8899,9557,11020,10850,10846,9047,21192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77775"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=77775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}