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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by jacquesm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:29PM (#13935165)
Many corporations have been found guilty of crimes. Rarely did an officer of those companies get sent to jail, most of the times even though a person committing that same crime would end up in jail officers of the company are not charged and instead the corporation pays a fine.

More data on this subject than you can absorb in a few days:

http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/plea_agreements/home.php...

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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:30PM (#13935180)
Aside from discretionary charging, it's fundamentally possible for a company to be guilty of a crime without any individual officer being guilty of that crime.
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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by jacquesm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:46PM (#13935314)
Yes. That's a bit paradoxical but correct and one of the ways in which corporate crimes end up being dealt with differently than crimes committed by natural persons.
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