Stimulus money going to scofflaw companies
Major recipients of U.S. contracts have paid big fines for breaking environmental, safety and discrimination rules
One company paid nearly $1 million for destroying seagrass in the Florida Keys marine sanctuary. Another settled a discrimination case after federal investigators found it refused to hire black employees. A third firm was rebuked by the Army for poorly screening the interrogators it hired -- interrogators who later abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Despite those problems, the three companies have won millions of dollars in contracts under the ...
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Until the corporate death penalty is reinstated, that is a corporation loses its charter when it is found guilty of a felony, we will continue to see these abuses. The very people who clamoured for the death penalty for 14 year olds in this country claim that the corp. death penalty is too harsh.