Infineon Execs Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing

An anonymous reader writes "Executives at Infineon Technologies plead guilty to an international conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market. Heinrich Florian, Günter Hefner, Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin, executives for Infineon Technologies, had a felony filed against them yesterday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Each executive could spend up to six months in prison and will have to pay a $250,000 fine. Under the plea agreement, they must also assist the government in its DRAM investigation. Infineon agreed in October to pay a $160 million fine for its role in the conspiracy, according to the Justice Department."

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Re:Priorites?

[Lehk228]

Simple, the victems of Union Carbide had two properties which made them ineligible for sympathy in the US.

1. They are not American
2. They are brown

I am certain that a disaster killing 1 million or more non-white non-americans would get less than a week of coverage, and only one front page and one feature story. Then 15 years later there would be a $disaster_site Revisited TV special and nobody would watch it.

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Proud to be an american
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