Should the CEO of Massey Energy face criminal charges

Text Ed Shultz.
Good discussion on again - Go Ed.

They may run from this one.

if the corporation is a person for purpose of criminal liablity, shouldn't the "corporation" be put in jail, not the natural person or persons (separate from the corporate person) that runs things?

Wouldn't the case for criminal penalties on the officer/director be greater if the corporation isn't a person?

Just trying to understand the logic.

Lock up the CEO, other executives and the Board of Directors or better yet, send them to work in the mines.

Just wondering why it would matter whether the corporation itself was a person. If the SCOTUS were to find that corporations weren't entitled to be treated as persons, would you argue that corporations could never be held criminally responsible, fined, enjoined from taking certain acts, etc?

So tired of these "decision makers" not being held accountable.

then that's CONSPIRACY! Increase the penalties! I mean, the CEO is conspiring with the corporation-person.

;-)

It's time the matter were clarified. But I doubt this current DOJ would have the stomach for it.

Exxon was indicted after the Valdez incident, to name just one example.

Reckless Endangerment.

Criminally Negligent Homicide.



He knew of hundreds of safety violations, that put his workers at risk. He let them go down into the mine without telling them of those risks.

and could we please try him in China.

Well, whatever one thinks of that one, Blankmanshit (sic on purpose) should definitely face criminal charges.

If someone dies as a result of you operating your vehicle with complete disregard for the safety of the public, you'll most likely go to prison. I feel it's no different than operating a coal mine with complete disregard for the safety of your own employees, resulting in their deaths.

He mocked the safety regulations and the regulators. He called them 'as silly as Global Warming'. He is a rightwingnut, teabagger who issued orders that no time was to be spent fixing safety problems in that mine, that they were to spend all their time 'running coal'.

So it was more than disregard, it was intentional, with knowledge that there were unsafe conditions in the mine. He did what he did for money. People's lives were not even a consideration for him. He once said that we 'have to get used to living in a capitalistic society where it is the survival of the fittest'.

A driver who had been issued tickets for an unsafe car, and had just laughed at them and caused the deaths of others, would be charged with at least criminally neglegent homicide.

in the real world, he owns enough people. The foremen will though... GRRRR