> shareholders, who aren't responsible because they only have indirect control over the corporation That's crime-laundering. Whether it should be punished by

> shareholders, who aren't responsible because they only have indirect control over the corporation That's crime-laundering. Whether it should be punished by criminal prosecution is dubious, but whether it should be punished by investors losing money is not. Otherwise the system manifests a perverse incentive to invest in corporations which commit crimes. Then again, facilitating criminality by the investor class is the whole point, isn't it?