"The undue profits that the companies derived from the collusion may even have artificially slowed down the transition to the more modern products like LCD and plasma displays".
Ms. Feinstein said the commission had not acted to protect California residents from companies that were reaping undue profits through spiraling energy costs.
The complaint included extracts from Bouvier's e-mails and cited the sales of the da Vinci and the Modigliani, on which Bouvier was accused of making around seventy million dollars in "undue" profits.
Ms. Feinstein, a California Democrat, said the commission, which is responsible for regulating the energy industry and is known by the acronym FERC, had not acted to protect residents of her state from companies that were reaping undue profits through spiraling energy costs.
"I think somebody is making an undue profit, and I know, having talked to a number of the retailers, they say it's not them, so it's got to be the refiners," said Ryan Benner, 53, a secondary school English teacher who lives in Lincoln and commutes 300 miles each week to work in rural Nebraska.
For instance the 4,000 MW Reliance developed Sasan coal plant was funded by the US Ex Im Bank and received $5 billion in undue profit as a part of coal-gate.
We have, however, a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear that conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well.
Five of Brown's heirs are trying to have his will voided, contending that his advisers, seeking to profit, used undue influence to create charitable trusts.
He said the company's emphasis on aggressive financial targets in the merger's first year had instilled an undue focus on short-term profits at the expense of attention to serving AOL's members.
But a majority share Sanders's outrage about the growing concentration of wealth and income, excessive executive compensation and corporate profits side-by-side with the epidemic of layoffs and foreclosures, and the undue political influence of billionaires like the Koch brothers, the Walton family, and Rupert Murdoch.
We hoped that unbridled self-interest would give way to responsibility and accountability, and that undue risk motivated by over-the-top profit would cease.
