Shyt, what car company was that that had all those break failures or something and they knew shyt was faulty and nobody went to jail. I wanna say Toyota. But not sure.
There are so many examples of that.
Dupont might be the worst one that I've looked into. They knew for 40 years that the PFOA chemicals they were dumping everywhere were extremely toxic and could lead to fatal diseases and birth defects. And not only did they keep it a total secret, but they kept dumping the shyt straight into municipal water supplies. Likely killed thousands of people and gave serious chronic diseases to tens of thousands more, probably hundreds of thousands more.
Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career — and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution.
www.nytimes.com
In the end they got fined for billions of dollars, but that was just a fraction of the profits they made producing the shyt for forty years, and NO ONE in the company faced any criminal liability for killing thousands of people.
To make it even worse, then they replaced the old chemicals with new chemicals, were using them in direct consumer food product contact like pizza boxes and take-out containers, and realized AGAIN that the chemicals were toxic. And hid the information AGAIN. And still no one went to prison.
The chemicals, called 6:2 FTOH, are now linked to a range of serious health issues, and Americans are still being exposed to them
www.theguardian.com
Then the "reorganized" themselves so that all liability went to a tiny subsidiary, which of course will go bankrupt in the future, and the main company doesn't have to pay shyt. This corporate statement might be some of the most cynical bullshyt I've ever seen:
Cleanups and health care costs tied to the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS could reach into the billions. Has DuPont found a way not to pay?
www.nbcnews.com
In a statement, DuPont said it could not comment on the findings because of a corporate reorganization.
"In 2019, DuPont de Nemours was established as a new multi-industrial specialty products company. DuPont de Nemours has never manufactured PFOA or PFOS," spokesperson Dan Turner said. "DuPont de Nemours cannot comment on allegations contained in the UCSF paper that relate to historical E.I. du Pont de Nemours matters."
Of course, the subsidiary is STILL putting PFOAs into the water.
The Big Bang of the nationwide “forever chemicals” crisis was the revelation in 2001 that PFOA, a toxic compound used to make Teflon, had contaminated the drinking water for 70,000 people near a DuPont factory in West Virginia. Pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency forced DuPont and...
www.ewg.org