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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com)
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[–] DevDave@piefed.social 138 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, reading the wiki you linked, looks like that one exec really learned their lesson \s

On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy.[5] Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000.[6] Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014

edit/update: Oh, wow so Sun Woo Lee actually really lucked out as Korea focused more on making an example of the Samsung heir apparent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong

8 months in prison sucks, I totally concede that. Yet literally the deal they made looks like they were asked "Would you take the fall and go to prison for 8 months and then get paid millions per year afterward?"

[–] Denvil@piefed.world 114 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Going to jail as a poor person means you lose your job

Going to jail as a rich person apparently gets you a promotion

Interesting

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 47 points 1 week ago

Doesn't the mob and other syndicates do something like that as well? Gotta do some time and not snitch to move up in the ranks.

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That means that he managed to keep the fine small enough that Samsung made significantly more money off the price fixing than they ever lost from the fine. Hasn’t changed

https://www.axios.com/google-facebook-fines-profits--134d3567-1052-4d9d-aa70-dc7c25ed4ebf.html

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Cost of doing business really

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Not just lose your job, but your entire career as the prison record will come up in your background check and the news will also be on the internet forever, the prison / slavery industry is a well oiled machine

[–] morto@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

"They gave their freedom for this company!" - Some corrupt executive somewhere