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"The company, France Télécom — which used to be state-owned and is now known as Orange, one of France’s largest corporations — was fined $83,000, the maximum penalty."

Nice.




No, Paris.

But you leave out the four months in prison for the CEO which is something. It's not clear from the wording whether he was the only one imprisoned.


Lombard (the CEO) won't actually be in prison.

"Yet since that term is under two years and as Lombard does not present a danger to society, he will not spend time behind bars under French court rules." [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-justice-orange-sen...


If that's so, then it obviously raises the question of what is the meaning of 8 months out of 12 being suspended?


I reckon it means that if he is convicted of anything in the next N years that many months gets instantly converted/added to the new sentence.


(also, I think most people missed your pun :) )


It's like, what, 6 month of pay.

Considering 2 people died, and this slap on the wrist is 6 month of wages, divide by two and that's 3 month pay for every dead worker.

Will the executive have to pay out of their pocket? If so, each executive can have up to 4 dead workers per year before having to worry -- not even taking bonuses in account!

Europe never ceases to amaze me.


Europe? Where is corporate crime punished effectively? With decades long prison sentences for the responsible executives?


Surprisingly enough, South Korea last week jailed a high ranking Samsung executive for anti union actions.


> If so, each executive can have up to 4 dead workers per year before having to worry

A smart executive will have some money set aside, but in general losing your entire wage is something most people would be very worried about




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