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lawbreaking
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By any measure, the lawbreaking by the U.S. subsidiary of Canada’s Toronto-Dominion Bank was spectacular.
That’s because it lacks a critical deterrent in white collar crime cases: criminal charges against TD’s top executives who were in place while the lawbreaking was in full cry.
Regarding the threat of jail, Mr Watson said, reflecting on one of the proposed measures listed by the government: "It's threatening to send them to prison if they obstruct an investigation into lawbreaking, so that’s pretty random. I don't think anyone will be going to prison."
Miller-Lerman accused her colleagues of choosing to “enable” the state’s “games,” delaying resolution by letting Higlers and Evnen raise a constitutional defense to their lawbreaking in the first place.
And then there are the crimes the Iranian government has perpetrated against its own people: arrest, torture and execution for such lawbreaking as protesting the government, asserting women’s rights or failing to adhere to various elements of Islamic Sharia law.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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