[rsynnott]

Arguably it's still at a level where it could be considered a cost of doing business. One school of thought is that for corporate punishment to be an effective deterrent it has to be _existential_; if you tell a company "if you do an illegal thing that makes you an extra billion dollars a year, we might eventually get around to fining you a few hundred million", then the rational company will say "sure, send us the bill whenever", and get on with doing the illegal thing.