wax_on: Ya know, at first glance $7 billion seems like a bit of a heavy penalty. After reading the article, I'm ok with that.
Yeah, I was thinking this was overblown as well, and then:
* the cable company got rid of an employee screening program that Time Warner Cable had in place when Charter bought the multiple-system operator in 2016.
* Spectrum allegedly hired Holden without verifying his employment history, which would have shown he lied about his work history.
Ok, so that's bad, but I'd rate it as stupid corporate stuff. You know, slap on the wrist. But then:
* Spectrum ignored requests by police and prosecutors to preserve evidence.
* One Spectrum security executive testified the company was "not necessarily" obligated to tell the truth or cooperate with police.
* Spectrum attorneys used a forged document to try and force the lawsuit into a closed-door arbitration, where the results would have been secret and damages for the murder would have been limited to the amount of Thomas' final bill.
* Attorneys said Thomas' family later received a bill from Spectrum that included a $58 charge for the murderer's service call and continued to receive bills for service weeks after Thomas died.
* During the trial, it was also revealed there had been more than 2,500 thefts by Spectrum employees against customers in the past several years, which the company refused to investigate or report to police.
Yeah, at $7B I think they're getting off light. And individual corporate execs should be found personally criminally liable.
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