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> It's the kind of money that gets people fired

1. It's not, and

2. Who cares if somebody gets fired for PR purposes? Especially with a severance that will make sure that their great-grandchildren will never have to work and your great-grandchildren will be paying them rent?

Everybody doing tens of billions of $ of business shrugs off a $200M fine. They might even get a bonus and a plaque for coming up with a scam that lasted so long before it blew up.

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>>Everybody doing tens of billions of $ of business shrugs off a $200M fine

Again, that's not how it works, although I know people have this romanticized view of big companies casually shrugging off 200M fines like nothing.

>>They might even get a bonus and a plaque for coming up with a scam that lasted so long before it blew up.

Again, cool idea for a book, but doesn't happen in reality. No one gets a pat on the back and a bonus for being fined 200M.