May 24, 2018
The federal indictment for price fixing against the CEO of Bumble Bee, one of the largest canned tuna packagers in the world, in May was a rare example of a top executive being pinned for the crimes of the company. Sucessfully locating blame on a single individual can be difficult because "individual responsibility in huge corporations can be very diffuse," Henry Pontell, a professor emeritus of criminology, law and society, told the LA Times.
"It's possible in a large organization that a CEO may not know who's doing what," Pontell said.