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Originally Posted by mrscoach
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If someone knowingly aids in an illegal act (they know it is illegal)they are just as guilty as the others.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Who is this "they?"
Steve Jobs? He'd dead. Other executives have moved on. And what is going to happen to the people who are still there and conspired? Are they going to be -- horror! -- written up by their boss? Denied a Christmas bonus? Neither one. Instead they will be gently told by legal how the airlines, after getting a similar hand-slap many years ago, now manage to keep so many prices identical with winking and nodding rather than explicit statements.
Apple is a publicly held company. It's almost 3 percent of the S&P 500 stock basket that a large portion of middle income Americans have their pension invested in. Those average Americans won't be hurt much by this, but they will be hurt a tiny bit, which is also the degree of hurt the conspirators will face. My point in mentioning the pension plans is that the people hurt by this ruling, if anyone, are not likely to have had anything to do with the conspiracy.
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I'm assuming "they" is "Apple". If that is just one person, or more than one person, it is still Apple. If these were "rouge" employees that broke the law, then Apple should have argued that. Are you really saying that Apple should be saying "Well, the main conspirators are no longer with the company. Can we go now?"
As for the penalties and its affects... If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. I'm guessing that any monetary penalty will be minuscule compared to Apple's bottom line. There will probably be some public outcry, but Apple has a strong following and all will be forgotten in a few years.