The CEO of a global firm did get put in prison in the telecommunications version of this sordid story - Joseph Nacchio of Qwest (a phone company that was driven

The CEO of a global firm did get put in prison in the telecommunications version of this sordid story - Joseph Nacchio of Qwest (a phone company that was driven into bankruptcy for refusing to play the NSA's game). All the Serious People just agreed that this was entirely normal and OK. (See http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a... for details if you haven't already heard about it. The "illegal stock trading" was selling shares in his own company while knowing about classified business with the NSA itself - which they deemed insider trading after they had a reason to punish him.)