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by janalsncm 1018 days ago
How about prison time for executives who use the legal system in bad faith? Refusing to pay is not permissible.
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Sorry, wage theft is done by people in corporations, therefore it doesn't count as real theft, so going to jail for it is almost impossible.

If you wanna get away with a crime, do it in a company.

It need not be that way, as Sarbanes-Oxley demonstrates.
Agreed, it doesn't have to be that way, but for most crimes, it's currently that way. The kinds of things that would get an individual sent to jail usually get a corporation hit with a fine.
I have this vague recollection that back in the 90's, some culture jamming collective tried to do adbusting defacement of billboards as an LLC, to avoid jail time.

Might have been a CrimethInc. cell, I don't recall.

This is America. Wage theft rarely gets punished, if ever.