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Going to jail as a poor person means you lose your job
Going to jail as a rich person apparently gets you a promotion
Interesting
Doesn't the mob and other syndicates do something like that as well? Gotta do some time and not snitch to move up in the ranks.
That means that he managed to keep the fine small enough that Samsung made significantly more money off the price fixing than they ever lost from the fine. Hasn’t changed
https://www.axios.com/google-facebook-fines-profits--134d3567-1052-4d9d-aa70-dc7c25ed4ebf.html
Cost of doing business really
Not just lose your job, but your entire career as the prison record will come up in your background check and the news will also be on the internet forever, the prison / slavery industry is a well oiled machine
"They gave their freedom for this company!" - Some corrupt executive somewhere