And a laundry list of other criminality.
This is EXACTLY what Republicans and libertarians are talking about when they wail about regulations. When this kind of stuff, illegal sales to foreign governments, bribery of foreigners to secure contracts, , deadly environmental emissions and attempts at concealment of the same, conspiring to rig prices with competitors, outright fraudi and theft (oil), knowingly operating defective equipment resulting in deaths, lying to state and federal regulators, defying court orders. is perpetrated by companies in a regulated environment„ you can only imagine the scale of evil that will exist if Republicans are successful in reducing or eliminating regulations. And these are the guys who are pouring money into Republican coffers (and Tea Party coffers, though the two are basically one big coffer) in order to get their unregulated way, and to commit all of these same actions with impunity. For Profit. Profit, and the satiation of the greed that yields it, at any cost. What the country needs is a lot more regulation and enforcement to ensure that this kind of criminality is brought to an end.
