Originally Posted By howard

Wont help. Judges in the US are political and operate to different standards for foreign companies. Look at the way they treated BP compared to the way they treated Exon for a similar offoence, except that in BPs case it was an American subcontractor who did the dirty and got away with it.


...true, and now you're getting me started on the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. At least 3800 people killed and 40000 disabled, and yet 31 years later the site has still not been cleared up, proper payment of compensation has not been paid and the guilty men have not been punished. If anybody deserves to be fined many billions it is Dow Chemicals (owners of Union Carbide). BP's and VW's misdemeanours are totally trivial in comparison. Shame on the USA for the obstructive way this case has been handled. mad2 swear

Last edited by pandy; 20/09/15 09:26 PM.

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