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by mcny 914 days ago
I agree with you on death penalty but the parent also says removal of all assets.

So I think life in prison with no possibility of parole plus removal of all assets is ideal.

But I think this should only apply to the CEO and the board not everyone up and down the chain at least in the US where we have a “right to work”.

I don’t know if the law will allow an effective removal of all assets. I’m thinking of trust fund babies and such…

Edit: at least in the US, I think there is a possibility of a pardon or commutation by POTUS. I think we need to abolish that as well or at least it should be that if you pardon or commute the sentence for one person for a crime, it automatically makes the same change (pardon/commutation) for everyone convicted of that crime.

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Couple that with impossibility to be ignorant of what happens inside of a company, because if not, top level management has a big incentive to have a buffer to keep them purposedly unknowing of this kind of doings.
> I don’t know if the law will allow an effective removal of all assets. I’m thinking of trust fund babies and such…

Civil asset forfeiture. The money itself is complicit in the criminal act.