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And what were the typical penalties imposed for these incidents?

Asked Perplexity to summarize and answer to you:

Tobacco litigation ($23.6B)

BP oil spill ($20.8B)

VW emissions scandal ($38B)

Enron/WorldCom financial fraud ($9.55B combined)

Pharmaceutical/auto/mortgage cases ($16.15B combined)

Get back to me when you can provide real sources, not some hallucinatin' jumped-up stochastic parrot.

Go to perplexity, learn a thing and use the sources it provides with its results.

Then see for yourself who's the parrot with no sources.

I would like to note that even if completely accurate, there's a curious lack of tech companies in that list.