(November 11, 2021 at 4:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I have been watching 'Dopesick'.
Yeah, me too, a great tragedy. How many of the people heading that company will serve so much as a day in prison?
We had a scandal here with a company called James Hardie Industries.. They sold asbestos products and other building materials.. They did pay some compensation to widows, but they managed to move their company and most of its assets offshore. Nobody went to prison.
One of our major banks was done recently for money laundering.
My point is that sociopaths are found in big business pretty much everywhere.
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"James Hardie Industries plc is a global building materials company and the largest global manufacturer of fibre cement products. Headquartered in Ireland, it is a cross-listed company, being listed on the Australian and New York Stock Exchanges. Its management team currently sits in Chicago, Illinois, United States.[1] James Hardie was plagued by several asbestos-related scandals in the 20th century.
In 1978 the effects of pleural abnormalities and other asbestos-related diseases were beginning to show up in the former mine workers. While other companies were involved in similar asbestos-related activities, most notably CSR, more than 50% of claims made to the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales in 2002 were brought against companies in the James Hardie group.[19]
James Hardie and its subsidiaries had been providing compensation for victims of its operations since the 1980s. Though some earlier claims had arisen, the proliferation of cases from the 1980s onwards forced James Hardie to acknowledge that it had known asbestos to be dangerous. James Hardie nonetheless maintained that it had done everything possible to protect workers.[20][21] In 1978 the company began putting warning labels on its products explaining that inhalation of the dust could result in cancer.[22] In March 1987 James Hardie ceased all asbestos manufacturing activities.[23]
As concern grew about the serious adverse health effects of asbestos, in the mid-1980s James Hardie developed an asbestos-free fibre cement technology, without the dangers associated with asbestos.[24]
James Hardie Industries - Wikipedia