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by rtpg 3806 days ago
But not all the profits are gained illegally (a priori). Of course you want the punishment to fit the crime, so you qualify how much money they made off of the crime itself and charge an order of magnitude more than that.

Convict them of 4 similar crimes and you wipe out a year's profit! I don't think GS takes a 25% drop in profits lightly.

Now in this case it sounds like they caused a lot of damage for what they did.