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Elizabeth Warren wants CEOs to go to jail when their companies behave badly
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Warren introduced a new bills to hold executives more accountable for corporate misconduct.
By Emily Stewart Apr 3, 2019, 5:30pm EDT
Just one big bank executive went to jail after the 2008 financial crisis. The CEO of Wells Fargo and his successor walked away from the megabank with multimillion-dollar pay packages after it was discovered employees had created millions of fake accounts. The same goes for the Equifax CEO after its data breach.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants that to change. Instead of these executives slinking away after the companies they run get caught behaving badly or sticking around without consequences she wants them to go to jail.
The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 presidential contender on Wednesday rolled out the Corporate Executive Accountability Act, new legislation that would up the accountability of corporate leaders for their firms misdeeds, whether or not they personally approved of the actions that broke the law. The bill builds on existing laws to include negligent executives of corporations with more than $1 billion in revenue and says that if they or the companies they run engage in bad behavior, they go to jail for a year.
This legislation complements the Ending Too Big to Jail Act, which Warren introduced in 2018 and is reintroducing again this Congress. That proposal would require the CEOs of big banks to certify that nothing illegal is happening under their watch and create a permanent governmental investigative unit to look into financial crimes.
FULL story: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/3/18294308/elizabeth-warren-op-ed-wells-fargo-equifax
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Elizabeth Warren wants CEOs to go to jail when their companies behave badly (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2019
OP
If corporations are people, why can't CEO's, board of directors and executives NOT go to prison?
beachbum bob
Apr 2019
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. Long overdue
I believe that they most certainly should do so.
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)2. If corporations are people, why can't CEO's, board of directors and executives NOT go to prison?
Why should they have special rights hidden behind the corporate vail?? If corporations are people then no such protection should exist
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Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)3. Excellent idea, but good luck with that
Rich people, especially rich WHITE people, rarely go to jail in America.
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crazytown
(7,277 posts)4. So do I
The test here is Criminal Negligence. The sort of Corporate malfeasance that anyone could see coming, but the CEO etc sat back and did nothing.
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Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)5. So do I..
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden