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> nearly impossible to prosecute any actual decision-maker Not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_
by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> nearly impossible to prosecute any actual decision-maker
Not really.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/minnesota-executives-sentenced-prison-orchestrating-multimillion-dollar-fraud-schemes https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/minnesota-executives-sent...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-biotech-executive-sentenced-7-years-jail-covid-test-fraud-2024-04-12/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-biotech-executive-sentenced...
- advael 2y agoYes, nearly impossible as I said before. The "nearly" qualifier acknowledges that this does sometimes nonetheless happen
- advael 2y agoAlso notable is that in the cases you've presented, the harm was not to the lives of poor addicts, but to the fortunes of rich investors, which seems a lot more like the kind of thing the courts will hear out