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JT45242

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15. Sort of criminal enterprise that RICO should cover, but won't

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2023, 08:25 AM

Jun 2023

The fines will be absorbed as the cost of doing business. They probably factored the fines into a cost/benefits formula which sure seems to go towards a criminal enterprise.

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Child labor investigation spreads to meatpacking, produce companies in 11 states [View all] BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 OP

Some would call that a pattern of abuse Bristlecone Jun 2023 #1

And how many of these owners/ceos are registered registered rethuglicans? Lunabell Jun 2023 #2

Lock those greedy mo____fu____s up. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2023 #3

So that's why the pukes justgamma Jun 2023 #4

Disgusting. Jobs nobody wants, but lets put migrant children in there. Owners need some jail time. Evolve Dammit Jun 2023 #5

K&R Solly Mack Jun 2023 #6

The companies, themselves, are not targets? slightlv Jun 2023 #7

I think I recall reading in earlier news stories BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #8

They do that for purposes of deniability moniss Jun 2023 #9

Yup. BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #12

Precisely. They hire through contractors to achieve plausible deniability sybylla Jun 2023 #13

One hell of a job of writing moniss Jun 2023 #10

I suspect the that same corporate majority owners are involved PurgedVoter Jun 2023 #11

This why the GOP wants to legalize child labor. Bluethroughu Jun 2023 #14

Sort of criminal enterprise that RICO should cover, but won't JT45242 Jun 2023 #15