[danmg]

It's only a very small minority of engineers who do. Unless you're a PE and you get to sign off on large development projects, there's no real accountability.

No matter how much teeth a governing body has, it's always going to be gun shy about denying people their livelihood. They're only going to go after the most egregious and flagrant problems. As long as the transgressions are mild, they pose no real danger to those who want to violate whatever ethics code are in place.