XPost: alt.mexico, nyc.politics, nyc.general 
 XPost: nyc.events 
 From: dank@nugget.org 
  
 NY.Transfer.News@blythe.org wrote... 
 > In April, a manslaughter trial of Grupo Mexico executives ended 
 > without prison sentences after one of the defendants paid damages of 
 > about $16,500 to each of the victims' families. 
 > 
 > In Friday's report, the congressional commission recommended 
 > officials and company executives linked to the explosion be removed 
 > form their posts and banned from working in the industry. 
  
 Grupo Mexico gets to keep the billions in profits from unsafe mining 
 operations and considers the few thousand dollars in fines to be just 
 a routine business expense, paling in comparison to the millions of 
 dollars paid in bribes to Mexican labor and safety officials to ignore 
 the violations. 
  
  
  
 > Grupo Mexico says it paid each family a one-off sum of close to 
 > $70,000 after the accident, plus several monthly payments. 
  
 How much do the Grupo Mexico defendants earn?  Who exactly paid the 
 compensation?  Did the executives actually pay out of their own bank 
 accounts the paltry settlement or did the settlement come out of 
 the company's account?  I expect to see the defendants eventually 
 being appointed to some government position, perhaps in charge of 
 workplace safety. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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