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Crown pleads financial hardship as court mulls $450m fine
(www.theage.com.au)
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Isn’t that the whole point of a fine? If it wouldn’t cause them any hardship, they’ll just treat it as the cost of doing business.
Send em bankrupt I reckon, they intentionally laundered money and collaborated with organised crime for yonks. Fuck em.
Yeah, it should be possible to issue death sentences to companies. But the government isn’t even willing to revoke their license to operate a casino, because “it brings so much money into the state”. Totally amoral.