&gt; <i>I understand that it ends up having impacts on people that aren&#x27;t necessarily involved in the misbehavior, but ...</i><p>The fact that you understand this could bankrupt and destroy people&#x27;s lives simply because they worked at the wrong company at the wrong time, but still seek to rationalize it, is more than a little disturbing.<p>Having draconian penalties for line employees is not going to do anything to dissuade a C-level executive who wants to commit fraud from committing fraud.