[bdowling]

> Corporations in the USA have the same legal rights as individuals...

They don't. For example, 5th Amendment protections against self-incrimination do not apply to corporations. Also, corporations have a right to an attorney but one is not provided to them free of charge by the government.

> But when it comes to criminal liability, the people in charge are not held accountable...

Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Skilling, Martha Stewart, and others put in jail for corporate crimes would disagree with you.

[saiya-jin]

Name one CEO of massive company with good relationship with US government that ever went to jail for things like 2008 financial crisis, or similar moral failures and criminal acts.

As much as those names you named are important, they are peasants compared to power wielded by the big guys.

[daniel-cussen]

Bernie Madoff was no peasant. He started the NASDAQ, and apart from not meeting your requirement of being a massive company CEO, ticked off all the boxes. He got 150 years in prison.

[opwieurposiu]

Bernie's mistake was stealing from other rich people. Much safer to steal from the taxpayer.