"Limited liability" and "corporate veil" refer to shareholder protection, not employee protection. Traditionally shareholders, not employees, were on the hook f

"Limited liability" and "corporate veil" refer to shareholder protection, not employee protection. Traditionally shareholders, not employees, were on the hook for lawbreaking. Anyway, you say something like "go through each individual in the corporation, see what laws they broke, and go after them" as though it's easy. In practice prosecutors have a hard time doing this even when they want to for the reasons I just said. Some of the Enron guys were acquitted by a jury, for example.