I believe so: consider the City Slickers case[0]. Those guys were journos, not proprietors, but I'm pretty sure that if you could prove that a proprietor put h

I believe so: consider the City Slickers case[0]. Those guys were journos, not proprietors, but I'm pretty sure that if you could prove that a proprietor put heavy manners on the journos to do that, they would certainly be up for a criminal conspiracy charge, at least in Britain. Of course, that is typically a pretty big 'if'. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hipwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hipwell