The difficulty of prosecuting top corporate executives

 

May 24, 2018

The federal indictment for price fixing against the CEO of Bumble Bee, one of the largest canned tuna packagers in the world, in May was a rare example of a top executive being pinned for the crimes of the company. Sucessfully locating blame on a single individual can be difficult because "individual responsibility in huge corporations can be very diffuse," Henry Pontell, a professor emeritus of criminology, law and society, told the LA Times.

"It's possible in a large organization that a CEO may not know who's doing what," Pontell said.

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