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Only because she ripped off investors. Ripping off consumers goes unpunished

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > Ripping off consumers goes unpunished The FBI arrested a VW executive in Florida in connection with this same scandal [1]. And last year, Insys’ CEO was arrested [2]. Watch your confirmation bias. [1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diesel-emissions-investigation-settlement.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-di... [2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/drug-companys-billionaire-ceo-arrested-nationwide-bribery-scam/story%3fid=50737965 https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/drug-comp...
  • alfredallan1 8y ago
    Let’s look at some other biases - so one exec from VW (a foreign company) was taken in. How many from GM who are just as guilty? What about the Equifax lot? Wells Fargo? The banks pushing crappy MBSs and ABSs on pensioners?
    • JumpCrisscross 8y ago
      > How many from GM who are just as guilty? What about the Equifax lot? Broadly speaking, you get fined for fucking up. You get jailed for covering it up. American commercial law largely protects company Boards and executives from their own stupidity. This is necessary, since the difference between madness and genius can only be ascertained ex post facto.
• yardie 8y ago
  Ripping off the government gets you a governorship. See Florida governor, Rick Scott.