DEFENDING THE DOUBLE STANDARD

Posted on Friday, February 03 at 04:23 by Milton
Increasingly, corporations are getting a free pass from prosecutors who don't want to do anything to harm the corporate entity.

In fact, today it is rare that a major corporation will be convicted of a crime that it has committed.

Instead, the corporation will toss overboard a number of executives -- all in an effort to save the corporation from criminal sanction.

When asked why corporations shouldn't be convicted of crimes they clearly committed, corporate defense attorneys come up with the same explanations.

Corporations are legal fictions.

Better to convict the individuals at the helm of the corporation and save the corporation.

Read the rest of this article at Corp Focus.

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  1. Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:27 pm
    Milton: This story is presented here as if it's a Canadian story. How
    Canadian is it?



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