To these companies, the law is just another cost of doing business to be accounted for and amortized whenever possible. If they can feign success in the early y

To these companies, the law is just another cost of doing business to be accounted for and amortized whenever possible. If they can feign success in the early years, they get a bunch of investor dollars that they can then use to pay off or bribe their way out of legal situations later, when they're much bigger. After all, they did get away with it, didn't they? 290 million is like 4% of one quarter's revenue for them, to pay back 6 years of operating illegally. Seems like a slap on the wrist if there ever was one.