Some Corporate Criminality Pales in Comparison to Others
In a ruling last week, King County Washington Superior Court Judge Timothy Bradshaw found that “Comcast violated the Consumer Protection Act more than 445,000 times when it charged tens of thousands of Washingtonians for its Service Protection Plan without their consent.” Each wrongful monthly charge was a separate violation, so, in most cases, there were multiple violations per customer.
Are you serious? A lousy 445K? Barely newsworthy. These criminals are practically blameless, in comparison with Volkswagen (11 million diesel customers ripped off and the world’s air polluted illegally), Wells Fargo (3.5 million fraudulent customer accounts opened and abused), and Monsanto (poisoning the food supply chain for most of the planet).
Yes, no one will be criminally indicted, and business will continue as usual.
As they say, “I’m in the wrong business.” There has never been a better time to be a corporate criminal.
Craig,
Gosh you are one angry guy! Why don’t you burn their barn down while your at it?
Hmmmm,…let’s see Comcast. All 190,000 employees are criminals ? Maybe just the board (who probably had no idea) or maybe just a couple of fairly low level executives, out to make their figures look better ?
Quite rightly, the consumer law kicked in and the company paid the appropriate penalty.
More interestingly, I haven’t heard you complaining about Comcast’s massive contributions to the Democrats or huge donations of money and media time to Obama. No criticism of the mysterious pressure brought to bear from all sorts of Democrat machine politicians, including Obama and HC to help Comcast’s David L Cohen avoid prosecution in return for a $2.8 donation ?
But then you’re very selective about who is, and who isn’t a criminal, aren’t you ?