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my comment was a response to the question "why do some companies have the GC report to the CFO?". it was not about the company in the originally linked article,
by metaphorm 13y ago
my comment was a response to the question "why do some companies have the GC report to the CFO?". it was not about the company in the originally linked article, which obviously does not use this structure (and for good reason).
regarding that CFO from the linked article though, the federal prosecutor seemed to believe she was a criminal, and proved it enough that a jury agreed also and she eventually served jail time. we're not mind readers so we don't know how she felt about her actions, but honestly, it kinda looks to me like she really was a low level sociopath. just because she was surrounded by people who reinforced and validated her behavior doesn't mean she was acting morally.
- skj 13y agoI think this is a misuse of the word 'sociopath'. There are lots of things that are not strictly legal that we do all the time. Some of them result in in jail sentences (eg. possession of marijuana can hardly be called sociopathic).
- metaphorm 13y agoI was not using sociopath as a synonym with "broke a law, any law". I was sociopath to mean "engaged in behavior that caused some level of harm to society". A low-level sociopath does something that causes a low level of harm to society. Accounting Fraud is a form of low level sociopathy, in my opinion.