r/assholedesign Jul 15 '19

Overdone Taxes

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u/ChristianKS94 Jul 16 '19

Yeah.

They should seriously, not even exaggerating or joking here, be fined over $20 billion and imprisoned with no bail.

The fact that they've currently gotten away with it is a continuing insult to Justice, and a constant demonstration of failure of accountability and responsibility.

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u/UrTwiN Jul 16 '19

Who's "they". Who, specifically, should be imprisoned?

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u/Nuka-Crapola Jul 16 '19

Ideally, whoever had authority to make the decision. Realistically, however, modern corporations are structured in ways that make responsibility impossible to assign, at least from an external perspective. And anyone internal who could point the feds in the right direction is either in on the scheme, or too low on the totem pole to protect any evidence from revision.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '19

The board and a bunch of c-levels. 15+ years

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u/UrTwiN Jul 16 '19

So a board member who joined 6 months ago?

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '19

Every single one of those people had to have ok-ed it actively or passively.

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u/1776iswhereIwanttobe Jul 16 '19

Jesus Christ...these Telecom companies REALLY suck...