Sentence examples for executives liable for from inspiring English sources

Equally important, regulators could hold Patriot's top executives liable for completing the mine cleanup.

He appears to feel he has a better chance at overcoming the legal hurdles to holding executives liable for business decisions than members of MF Global's board.

Mr. Lewis, based on his remarks in the interviews with Sky News, the BBC and the newspaper The Guardian, appeared to be relying, as a basis for the American legal action, on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a 1977 statute that holds American companies and their executives liable for corrupt activities abroad, including bribery of foreign officials.

In the years since it failed to prosecute a single Wall Street executive involved in the global financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice has repeatedly promised to hold corporate executives liable for wrongdoing.

They have also discussed whether to hold executives liable should a bank skirt the rules.

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According to critics, the new measures would unreasonably raise the standard required for the government to hold corporate executives criminally liable for wrongdoing; the government would have to prove that the executives hadn't just committed a crime but knowingly done so, even in instances of dire consequence to the public, such as lethal pollution and unsafe food or drugs.

The new management sounds determined to stop the feuding and let the courts decide whether Laporta and some of his executives are liable for unaccounted losses.

The jury, after deciding that the agency and its executives were liable for Ms. Gallegos's damages, was told to return tomorrow for a second phase of deliberations, to determine how much the defendants will have to pay her.

He said he would like nothing better than to force companies to open their books to federal investigators and to make executives personally liable for jail when their corporations broke the law.

It is an interesting question whether Congress should consider similar legislation to make it easier to hold financial executives criminally liable for decisions that can result in billions of dollars of losses, much of which may be borne by taxpayers as long as there are institutions considered "too big to fail".