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Re:Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:21PM (#20239324)
Like we do now: you hit it in the pocketbook with massive fines.

Also, the CEO may not go to jail, but the local people actually doing the bribery should.

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Re:Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes by pmiller2 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:58PM (#20239508)
That’s the problem: we’re not doing that.
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Re:Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:00PM (#20239516)
Per the friendly article, Walmart has spent over $1 billion total on this (fine, legal fees, investigation), which is a noticeable number even by megacorp standards.
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Re:Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes by pmiller2 on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:00AM (#20240508)
Legal and investigative fees are not “massive fines.” Those are optional. They could have admitted guilt 10 years ago and not had to pay them.

And, speaking of 10 years, they had that long to spread that billion dollars over. They’ve probably made $300B in that time. $1B is a drop in the bucket.

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Re:Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes by ionised on Friday June 21, 2019 @05:13AM (#20241018)
1 billion is pittance to Walmart
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