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Why can big corps pay and get free? Its often happens, company x made crime y, pays government z and gets free.
by acd 7y ago
Why can big corps pay and get free? Its often happens, company x made crime y, pays government z and gets free.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoI wish I knew. FWIW, the film Law Abiding Citizen examines a similar topic: plea bargains in criminal cases against individuals. For me, it was a great thought-experiment about how one's anger about plea-bargaining could play out. But just a warning, it has some pretty horrific scenes that you might regret watching.
- post_break 7y agoThe end result in the real world is killdozer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
- koolba 7y agoThat’s an incredible read!
- really3452 7y agoJust another form of bribing.
- JohnFen 7y agoBecause (at least in the US), money is power.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoIt is a great quality of the Law that it allows both rich and poor alike to pay a lot of money to avoid jail time when caught committing a crime.
- ngold 7y agoEveryone has the freedom to pay.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoEveryone can pay their freedom, but inexplicably only certain people do.
- diminoten 7y agoWho would go to jail? Corporations are built specifically to shield the employees/owners of the corporation from liability. Like, I know the sovereign citizen stuff is all nonsense, but this is kind of their point. They're trying to get away with the same things corporations get away with on the regular.
- JohnFen 7y ago> Corporations are built specifically to shield the employees/owners of the corporation from liability. But that shield is not all-encompassing. The corporate veil can be pierced, and one of the things that can bring that result is lawbreaking on the part of a corporation. This is a complex topic. A reasonable explanation can be found here: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifications-for-piercing-the-corporate-veil/ https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifi...
- hanniabu 7y agoBecause they don't actually want to stop them from doing these things. It's just a show to make it look like this 3 letter agency is actually doing something.
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- kevin_b_er 7y agoIn its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.