Peanut picker Parnell gets the book thrown at him:
(CNN) Stewart Parnell once boasted processing the “finest” peanut products, on Monday, the former company executive was effectively sentenced to life behind bars for knowingly shipping out deadly food.
I say it was a just punishment.
The same penalty should have applied to the auto makers that deliberately cover up defects in their automobiles for the sake of profit as they did for Parnell.
How are the deceptive auto makers any different than this peanut picker that concealed the fact his peanuts may have been affected with salmonella? That possibility did not prevent the former head of the Peanut Corporate of America (now a defunct company) from shipping out his tainted nuts to anyone that would buy them. The outbreak resulted in 9 deaths and 714 people getting deadly sick
Parnell who is 61 years old, received a 28-year prison sentence from a federal judge, considered the toughest penalty ever for a corporate executive in a food poisoning outbreak.
GM’s management neglecting to recall defective ignition switches; as culpable as committing murder:
General Motors will pay $900 million following a massive recall and more than 100 deaths after the company’s faulty ignition switches caused …
GM deliberately ignored the fact that some of their cars had defective ignition switches that eventually caused the deaths of 124 people. That is the population of some small cities in the USA. Imagine wiping out an entire city?
How is it possible that one judge give the execs of a company 28 years in prison for being responsible for the deaths of 9 people and another judge lets the culprits off with a fine that were responsible for the deaths of 124 people? Ruling such as that leads a person to believe that may be some hank panky floating around in the judicial system.
It is possible that the GM decision was based on how much the company is worth? Personally I don’t see that justice was served in the GM case or any others like it.
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