A close family friend of John Barnett said he predicted he might wind up dead and that a story could surface that he killed himself.
  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So what do you mean by white collar crime?

    It’s a pretty well defined term.

    Does it include killing people or not?

    It may mean being responsible for their deaths, but not in a way in which you could be charged for murder.

    Also there os myriads of examples from today, where western companies directly or indirectly order people to get killed

    Almost always indirectly, and almost never on US soil. Not hiring a hitman to stage a suicide in the US. The kinds of things that US corporations do are the kinds of things they can talk about at board meetings without worrying that they’ll go to jail of the meeting is bugged. They can talk about hiring SecuriCo in Zambia to deal with unrest at the mine. Or, they can talk with hiring the law firm Goldman, Burke and Mott to deal with the bad PR from the whistleblower. They’re not going to chat about going onto a dark web server to hire a hit man to kill a whistleblower. That’s movie stuff, not reality.