Apparently If You Make Enough Money You Can Run Over Whomever You Want

From the Vail Daily

A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday.

Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, faces two misdemeanor traffic charges stemming from a July 3 incident when he allegedly hit bicyclist Dr. Steven Milo from behind then sped away, according to court documents.

Did you catch that, he wont face charges, not because he isn’t guilty…but because it would harm his job if he got a felony charge.

What…The…Fuck…

Seriously its not like he just bumped this guy either, he seriously ran him over then drove off.

Milo, 34, is a physician living in New York City with his wife and two children, where he is still recovering from his injuries, court records show.

Milo suffered spinal cord injuries, bleeding from his brain and damage to his knee and scapula, according to court documents. Over the past six weeks he has suffered “disabling” spinal headaches and faces multiple surgeries for a herniated disc and plastic surgery to fix the scars he suffered in the accident.

“He will have lifetime pain,” Haddon wrote. “His ability to deal with the physical challenges of his profession — liver transplant surgery — has been seriously jeopardized.”

Apparently the DA’s logic goes something like this, if Erzinger gets a felony charge, he has to report that to his clients, and that would harm his business as an ultra high end investment guy, so instead we will just make him pay the money and he wont get the criminal record. Pardon me but wasn’t the fact that he ran over someone then drove off the thing he is getting punished for…isn’t getting a felony going to hurt anyone’s business? Isn’t that the point of criminal charges? Why is this guy immune? Oh yea because he is super rich and this is Vale CO we are talking about here.

If he really wanted to avoid all this trouble he could have done a couple of things. NOT run the guy over, or perhaps stay at the scene and help him out instead of driving away and then calling BMW about how he could get his mirror fixed.

This is a serious breach of the law and if you would like to do something about it you can sign a petition here, or perhaps you could give the driver an email and let him know how you fell ([email protected]), or you could give the Eagle County DA’s office a call and let them know that you don’t think being rich means you can get out of being charged with a crime (970-328-6947).

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