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3 companies defrauded the government and pretended to be millions of US citizens in order to make billions in illegitimate profits.

Were fined a few hundred thousand.

Why isn’t every individual involved in jail? Why haven’t all the company assets been seized?

Also, given that they were impersonating real living people, can we please get a list of those people? Or at least have the victims of identity theft, fraud, and I think for many on HN defamation?

The _only_ reason those details should not be available is to further protect these shit stains.



Simply put: limited liability, lobbying (political donations) and general ignorance of the subject matter by a majority of the population.


Limited liability only protects the "owners", not the employees, including the board.

So while piercing the LLC veil seems unreasonably hard, putting every individual involved in jail seems not unreasonable.


Yet reality defies your "reasonable" expectations.




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