After 20 years, TV documentaries, long running newspaper campaigns, parliamentary inquiries, finally a smoking gun. And hopefully some jail time, and even more hopefully some way to force companies to admit to wrong doing
However this scandal has ruined one more thing for me - the Hollywood feel good movie where the hero walks into the newspaper offices, lays out the terrible thing the big corporate firm has been murdering people to cover up, and credits roll.
Now we know credits roll for 20 years and people still deny there is anything wrong.
This is why ordinary Russians liked Putin and why the strongman is a popular political figure. Democracy does need a way to fix scandals like this. (Cf the selling of hundreds of millions of pounds of Tyneside property for one pound an acre)
ndsipa_pomu•1mo ago
Yeah, I'm amazed that no-one has been prosecuted for fraud and/or perjury. As the Post Office "reclaimed" money from the sub postmasters and execs got bonuses for that, I fail to see how that isn't blatant fraud.
lifeisstillgood•1mo ago
Yes I had forgotten about that - if an exec had knowledge of this contract and got a bonus then … yeah …
My thinking is this is a moral hazard for all large orgs - that if you are an exec in this awkward position you need to know that even after twenty years they will still take your life savings and put you in jail if you don’t blow the whistle.
lifeisstillgood•1mo ago
However this scandal has ruined one more thing for me - the Hollywood feel good movie where the hero walks into the newspaper offices, lays out the terrible thing the big corporate firm has been murdering people to cover up, and credits roll.
Now we know credits roll for 20 years and people still deny there is anything wrong.
This is why ordinary Russians liked Putin and why the strongman is a popular political figure. Democracy does need a way to fix scandals like this. (Cf the selling of hundreds of millions of pounds of Tyneside property for one pound an acre)
ndsipa_pomu•1mo ago
lifeisstillgood•1mo ago
My thinking is this is a moral hazard for all large orgs - that if you are an exec in this awkward position you need to know that even after twenty years they will still take your life savings and put you in jail if you don’t blow the whistle.