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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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