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On the recordMarch 5, 2013
If you constitutionally can jail a CEO of a major corporation, you are going to send a pretty wide signal to stop a lot of activity that people think they can get away with.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley emphasizes the deterrent effect of prosecuting corporate CEOs.

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