Righteous Indignation

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

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…