Comment by gruez
3 years ago
>or presiding over widespread flouting of the law by other management. E.g. The Wells Fargo cross selling scandal created literally millions of fraudulent accounts, and nobody went to jail.
"presiding over widespread flouting of the law" isn't a crime though, and it's difficult to make that a crime without running into due process issues (eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea)
I think calling it gross negligence and making it criminal is fine.
The implication of running a company is that you're charge. Obviously you can't control every employee so one offs are fine, but at a certain level of widespreadness it becomes a matter of, well, gross negligence.