Elizabeth Warren Wants To Throw Corrupt CEOs In Prison

Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a new bill that would make it easier to send corrupt corporate CEOs to prison when their company breaks the law. This is something that has been needed for decades, as CEOs all too often get away with murder, and that is meant in the most literal sense. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what this legislation would do.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Yesterday, Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren introduced the Corporate Executive Accountability Act that would extend liability to corporate CEOs basically make it easier for this country to put corporate CEOs in prison. Now here are some of the specifics of what this particular piece of legislation would do. Uh, any executive, uh, that's found guilty pleads guilty or enters into a deferred non prosecution agreement for any crime, uh, if they're found liable or enter into a settlement with any state or federal regulator for the violation of any civil law. If that violation affects the health, safety, finances or personal data of 1% of the American population or 1% of the population of any state or if they are found liable or guilty of a second civil or criminal violation for a different activity while operating under a civil or criminal judgement of any court, a deferred prosecution or non prosecution agreement or settlement with any state or federal agency, they would therefore be subject to prosecution themselves.

So basically to kind of boil it down from that to, you know, find print there. If you are running a company and your company, say it's a Wall Street bank is stole a lot of money from people. You did the Robo signing, you had some fraudulent mortgages there and he got popped with it in civil court. Okay, you're going to pay a big fine, but under Warren's new rules, the CEO of that company in any other executives would also be subject to criminal prosecution. Now that's the piece of this puzzle that's been missing is that okay, we got busted, we'll pay a fine. The fine is still somehow less than the profits we made off the illegal activity, so we're coming out on top. Nobody goes to jail. We swear we'll change our ways even though we don't, and that's the end of it. Elizabeth Warren says, Oh Hell No.

That's not going to be the end of it. You, Mr or Mrs CEO, one of the company to do this. You knew it was happening. Your running the entire company, so everything they do, it's essentially like you yourself are doing it so we are going to prosecute you and puts you in jail. I love this planet. Almost a hundred percent I love this plan. Here's what I don't love about this plan. It doesn't go far enough because this is only if you get busted for civil violations, meaning if you screw people over, it's a, it's a good start. It has to happen. So I fully support this legislation, but it also only affects your company if you pull in more than $1 billion in revenue per year. I don't, I don't like that. I think it should be. If you pull in more than $1 in revenue a year, if your company gets busted doing something illegal, you should be criminally prosecuted.

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