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Originally Posted by Relentless
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/bu...6.html?hp&_r=0
This was NOT an accident... and those 3 people did not act on their own.
They paid 4B (which will get added onto consumer costs) to avoid a larger criminal indictment that would have put more asshats in prison. They should not have been offered that option.
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Precisely. I do think it's pretty obvious that both this fine will hurt them more than the money itself AND that they've paid plenty otherwise, but for some to imply they shouldn't be fined at all given what they did is ridiculous.
I don't know if that fine is necessarily "too low" given the other costs and consequences they've already faces on their own before the fine. Unfortunately, it's true that the cost will simply be passed on to us consumers, as it always is. Prices always quick to go up, slow to go down.