This Metafilter thread is good medicine if you’re keen to work up a head of righteous steam and then go smite the hell out of the first person who annoys you. But that’s not what I wanted to talk about… one of the many fascinating links out of that thread is to this : The Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the ’90’s. And down near the bottom of that list I found :
86) Hyundai Motor Company
Type of Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $600,000
93) Korean Air Lines
Type of Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $250,000
96) Daewoo International (America) Corporation
Type of Fine: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $200,000
100) Samsung America Inc.
Type of Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $150,000
Type of Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $600,000
93) Korean Air Lines
Type of Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $250,000
96) Daewoo International (America) Corporation
Type of Fine: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $200,000
100) Samsung America Inc.
Type of Crime: Campaign finance
Criminal Fine: $150,000
It would appear that some of the chaebols (the huge corporations that own this country outright) were attempting to buy themselves a president or two in America back in the last decade. I wonder if it was one of the Shrubs, or Slick Willy who was their rent-boy…
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