Definición y penalidades de los 'bucket shops' en Washington

Explicación Simple

Un 'bucket shop' es un lugar donde las personas hacen contratos para comprar o vender cosas como acciones, pero sin hacerlo de manera legal. Si alguien abre uno, se mete en problemas serios con la ley.

Es como si un grupo de amigos apostara en quién ganará un partido de fútbol, pero en lugar de hacerlo de manera justa, están engañando a otros para ganar más dinero.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan abre un local donde promete que sus amigos pueden comprar acciones de empresas sin pasar por la bolsa de valores. Aunque parece divertido, si la policía descubre que está haciendo eso, Juan podría ir a la cárcel por varios años.

Penalidades

Operar un 'bucket shop' es un delito grave que puede llevar a cinco años de prisión.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

RCW 9.47.080 - Bucket shop defined A bucket shop is hereby defined to be a shed, tent, tenement, booth, building, float or vessel, or any part thereof, wherein may be made contracts respecting the purchase or sale upon margin or credit of any commodities, securities, or property, or option for the purchase thereof, wherein both parties intend that such contract shall or may be terminated, closed and settled; either,(1) Upon the basis of the market prices quoted or made on any board of trade or exchange upon which such commodities, securities, or property may be dealt in; or,(2) When the market prices for such commodities, securities or property shall reach a certain figure in any such board of trade or exchange; or,(3) On the basis of the difference in the market prices at which said commodities, securities or property are, or purport to be, bought and sold. RCW 9.47.090 - Maintaining bucket shop -- Penalty Every person, whether in his or her own behalf, or as agent, servant or employee of another person, within or outside of this state, who shall open, conduct or carry on any bucket shop, or make or offer to make any contract described in RCW 9.47.080, or with intent to make such a contract, or assist therein, shall receive, exhibit, or display any statement of market prices of any commodities, securities, or property, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years.