Re:Dick Costolo: Some Business Leaders Should Face a Firing ...
by ncmncm on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:42PM
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Paint executives, tobacco executives, shortening/margarine executives all retired to their yachts scot-free, not held to account for millions of deaths caused directly by their choices.
US law enables prosecuting individual corporate officers. The only time I have heard of it used, in living memory, was to prosecute JPMorgan metal futures people for manipulating prices in ways bad for business. Killing people (slowly enough) is just good business.
Certain companies have asked and been allowed to flout the ban on trans fats in foods, until at least 2021. "We still have poison in the pipeline we would like to sell first." Trans fats have been known to be deadly since 1957.
US law enables prosecuting individual corporate officers. The only time I have heard of it used, in living memory, was to prosecute JPMorgan metal futures people for manipulating prices in ways bad for business. Killing people (slowly enough) is just good business.
Certain companies have asked and been allowed to flout the ban on trans fats in foods, until at least 2021. "We still have poison in the pipeline we would like to sell first." Trans fats have been known to be deadly since 1957.