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by jeremynixon 1351 days ago
Are these fines close to the business value gained from getting this legislation passed over the last 5 years? Seems unlikely. Nobody is going to jail. So where is the disincentive?
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Agreed. When a company does something illegal, the "company" is liable. But it was actually a person within the company who made the decision to do this; companies are not sentient. Why are the decision makers not held liable instead?
Cost of doing business. Seems like this had positive ROI.

I’d like for companies that do illegal things to have repercussions in line with what an individual would face for doing the same thing. Whoever signs off on it at the highest level should pay the price.

The former President of AT&T Illinois has been charged and may go to prison: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-president-att-il...
To hell with monetary gain. It should be prison time for executives and board members.
The head of AT&T Illinois is very much going to do time in federal prison and AT&T provided the evidence to the feds to send him there.