Ted Stevens, famous for using tax dollars to fund a bridge to nowhere, and who once referred to the Internet as a series of tubes, is now, surprisingly, taking on big oil. You cannot find a more perfect example of corporate corruption than Exxon, who continues to post world record profits:
An Alaska jury hit Exxon with a $5 billion verdict in 1994, but Exxon hasn’t paid a dime of it. Instead, it has appealed the case for so long that 8,000 of the original class members in the lawsuit have since died without seeing the case resolved.
Read the whole entry at MoJo.
The worldest largest, most lucrative company, refuses to pay a single cent to atone for its crimes. 14 years, 5,000,000,000 dollars, 8,000 deaths, not one cent paid. Classy.
- Eric Miller, millerec@etown.edu
