[rhizome]

I view white-collar crime as primarily an individual act. Corporate crime, such as we saw with HSBC, Dow Chemical, and even Mitchell Jessen, escapes significant punishment, only very rarely rising to criminal conduct. That the conduct is legal, or considered legal, is a policy and legislative outcome.

As for intent, the law has centuries of precedent to incorporate into criminal statutes that affect corporate activities. It's just that the standards are artificially high and don't take into account the diffuse nature of the enterprise. But we have several decades of even that which could be applied, but isn't.