[542458]

It’s kinda wild that the two executives committed fraud to export weapons technology to a major military adversary in contradiction of international agreement… and ended up with 10 and 12 month sentences. That seems really light to me!

[romwell]

The country that issued the sentence is the same country that profited off of the exports and whose government is heavily involved in business deals[1]... so yeah.

Also, the punishment would be not to the executives, but to the company involved (Toshiba) and imposed externally. However:

>In response to the affair, Toshiba carried out lobbying activities in Congress between 1987 and 1989 to ease the sanctions. The amount of money invested by Toshiba, the number of lobbyists, and the scale of its activities were said to be the largest ever.

So, business as usual.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-business_relations_...

[Eisenstein]

You know, lobbying wouldn't be so bad if our government officials just ignored them when they were advocating against the public interest.

[Exoristos]

Found the lobbyist.

[Eisenstein]

Can I be a lobbyist that lobbies against lobbying?

[xp84]

Right? This seems like close to Light Treason territory to me.