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On the recordJuly 21, 2015
If a big company can commit major fraud again and again and again, and each time they just pay a fine and promise to be good and move on, I am not sure what incentive there is for them to stop breaking the law.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren questions the effectiveness of fines for repeated corporate fraud.

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