Executive Criminal Liability

"Higher"-level execs shouldn't be automatically held responsible for decisions they didn't make. Punish the manager(s) or employee(s) or exec(s) who held power and made the bad decision. Those execs don't really own or control the company anyway, for such large, post-IPO companies. That's like punishing the mayor for a crime someone committed on the street.

top executives are responsible when the company makes a profit. maybe they should be responsible when the company commits a crime. if they can't be responsible when the company commits a crime, how do they justify being primarily responsible when the company does well?

the best thing is how the "company" (or corporation) is to blame.so none of the actual individual humans who did this is at fault here. at worst they would be fired and go to work somewhere else. which is compeletely fine.and with a fine like that, this is just a "cost of doing business" for the corporation.maybe one day terribly criminal corporations should be forcefully disbanded as punishment.

Holding C-level executives criminally liable for the actions of the company would be a start.

"Taking responsibility" means very little these days. The problem with corporations is that nobody is truly responsible for any crimes committed by the company. If the people responsible were to actually go to prison or pay any fines out of their own pockets, then I suspect they would be a lot more careful.Any fines paid by the company itself, no matter how crippling, eventually only really hurts the workers (because they're downsized), the customer (higher prices to cover the

A company consists of people. If a company commits a crime, some of those people are responsible for it. That they're not financially liable does not mean they can't be held criminally liable. But of course it's got to be the people in charge, the people who made the decision to do it, allow it, enable it, create a culture that normalised it, who need to be held accountable and liable, not just the person who received the order to do it.

The executives should be held personally responsible for what the corporation does. In this case, people died so the CEO, CFO, etc. should all be sent to jail as if they had killed these people personally, their assets seized and distributed to the victims. I guarantee you that once you have real consequences for executives' actions, they will fix the problem immediately. That will never happen in our corporation first culture, however, but the culture might eventually change and demand jus

I wonder this as well. Unless it's the CEO/CTO going to jail, it's not actual responsibility... it's just "we'll pay you some tiny amount if we kill someone" YOLO

That's simple-sounding, but I don't think it's simple.Large organizations like banks are fantastic for obscuring responsibility. The CEOs say, "I didn't know." The line workers say, "I was just following orders."Everybody in between keeps things hazy because it's useful to their careers. When things go badly, they need to be able to claim it wasn't their fault. When things go well, they try to claim credit.The net result is nobody gets punished when there is crime on a massive scale.

I'm not saying they made the decision, necessarily, only that they can be held responsible for it. If they can't be responsible for anything their corporations have done, who can be?