[Stranger43]

Going directly after the executives would at the very least be better theater then letting a company pay the government with the governments own money.

It probably wont fix the issue but this kind of non-action is why most people have lost all trust in the American Governments ability to regulate corporations at all.

It's very likely that the current court structure would be extremely reluctant to issue any guilty verdict against a member of the executive class for simply chasing short term profit at the cost of the public good/safety so that this is the best that could be do but if that's true it's basically demonstrating that the technocratic center have lost it's ability to be effective technocrats and that can/will have severe implications for who is considered electable to the point where we might not see another centrist government for a while.