After tests showed that breathing machines made by Philips Respironics could spew dangerous particles and fumes into the lungs of patients, the company in April 2021 decided to stop shipping the devices from its factories near Pittsburgh.

Philips notified the Food and Drug Administration and said it was considering a recall.

But for the distributors of the devices, the company had another message: Keep selling them.

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    These types of people who knowingly commit crimes that can and do affect others’ health, purely in the pursuit of greed, should face the death penalty. I’d rather see the C-Suite assholes rot in jail than low level drug offenders.

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    Lock him up. All these CEOs and other business people get away with harming and killing countless Americans, and their companies get meager fines. It is not okay.

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    As long as these fuckers don’t get punished in the way it really hurts their bottom line, they’re going to keep pulling the same shit.

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        No do both. If it only hurts one person, they’ll just find scapegoats. It has to affect everybody who benefited off it.

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    What was the argument; they get higher pay, because of the responsiblity they bear? Then why is it often the company getting a fine, instead of the CEO/Manager making illegal decisions going to jail?