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> nearly impossible to prosecute any actual decision-maker

Not really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/minnesota-executives-sent...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-biotech-executive-sentenced...

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Yes, nearly impossible as I said before. The "nearly" qualifier acknowledges that this does sometimes nonetheless happen

Also notable is that in the cases you've presented, the harm was not to the lives of poor addicts, but to the fortunes of rich investors, which seems a lot more like the kind of thing the courts will hear out

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