When it was all said and done in the end, Exxon got away with a slap on the wrist and billions of dollars in record profits.
But then, how many readers committed serial fraud, got away with a slap on the wrist and no jail time each time, and were then named to a prestigious White House position?
When states like Alabama and Ohio consider proposals to upgrade their anti-cockfighting laws, it's the UGBA affiliates that hire paid lobbyists and pack the hearing rooms with cockfighters -- the only people with a vested interest in keeping the weak laws on the books and getting away with a slap on the wrist.
Paul Udoto, a spokesperson for the Kenya Wildlife Service, told AFP news agency that the ruling was a "remarkable precedent" and rangers in Kenya would be motivated by seeing that poachers could no longer get away with a mere "slap on the wrist".
On one hand, many New Yorkers want to make an example of Mr. Burress, tired as they are of watching celebrities flout the law and then get away with a wrist slap, if that.
Maybe it's because I've read too many stories about women being raped in frat basements and abused by athletes – who, especially if they're white, tend to go unpunished or get away with a light slap on the wrist.
That, says the DOJ's antitrust division, is why it will ask the court "to evaluate whether additional conduct-related provisions are necessary, especially in the absence of a break-up .The state attorneys general have also vowed to make sure that Microsoft does not get away with a mere slap on the wrist, even at the price of appearing to break-up .Theith the DOJ.
Even in the rare instance that the perpetrators of such attacks are caught alive, they get away with a mere slap on the wrist.
The coalition government has allowed more than 10,000 perpetrators of domestic violence to get away with an apology and slap on the wrist, Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, will say on Monday.
