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thomhartmann

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Wed Sep 23, 2015, 04:39 PM Sep 2015

Thom Hartmann: Finally - A CEO Goes to Jail for Killing People



An executive who knowingly let salmonella-tainted peanut products be sold to consumers was sentenced to 28 years in prison yesterday. That's good news - but I'll tell you why it's time we start holding more corporate crooks accountable when they put profits over people.

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Thom Hartmann: Finally - A CEO Goes to Jail for Killing People (Original Post) thomhartmann Sep 2015 OP
How many went to jail from GM for the faulty ignition switches? rurallib Sep 2015 #1
musta had worlds worst lawyer KG Sep 2015 #2
BP budgeted for the killing of their workers when trying to decide which budget proposal Dustlawyer Sep 2015 #3

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
1. How many went to jail from GM for the faulty ignition switches?
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 04:53 PM
Sep 2015

0 of course - just a fine which amounts to pennies for GM.
On and on it goes.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
3. BP budgeted for the killing of their workers when trying to decide which budget proposal
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 01:13 AM
Sep 2015

to pick on a newly acquired, old refinery in Texas City, Texas. Two of the 4 budget proposals had estimates on the number of people that would DIE because they were not fixing some of the most dangerous known conditions. These proposals were labeled the Straw House, Stick House,Brick House, and Impenatrable Fortress and had cartoon representations next to them. Then BP had to come up with how much did each of their little "Piggies" deaths cost in total after paying off family, defense lawyers and ad budget to rehab image. They went with the Stick House budget because profits were maximized there and they would ONLY KILL two or three workers. They missed the estimate and killed 15!
While on probation for that they killed 11 more just on the Deepwater Horizon (they killed several more in between, but only one or two at a time). After we asked the DOJ to recind their probation Eric Holder let them off early.

Corporation run this country! Feel the Bern, PLEASE!!!

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