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Corporations can be charged with crimes, anywhere. What this is suggesting is that the CEO's actually be held accountable.

Yes incorporation protects you from the fiscal results of your actions - the loss of your company should be enough of a punishment for 99% of business owners who fuck up through negligence or greed. However, when you're purposefully embezzling, tax evading and outright breaking moral, ethical and legal codes, then there should be a nice concrete cell waiting for you.

If you think fiscal immunity equates to legal and moral immunity, then you have a very distorted view of the world.

You'll go away for years for a non-violent mugging, but when you embezzle millions into offshore accounts you're given a slap on the wrist and allowed to leave the country to live in the Bahamas and not even attempt to pay your debt to the people you robbed blind.




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