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Why is it a bit much? I think the "corporate death penalty" is appropriate when you fail to protect the financial history of 147 million people.



That was done for one of the US accounting companies, Arthur Andersen, related to Enron financials.

Noody, including the govt., was happy with the final result.

So although it should be on the table, in reality, it probably won't come from the govt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen


How could the result have been any different or better? I don't see where anyone's claiming the government was unhappy with the final result. Rotten firms like this need to die.




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