Oct. 19 · Soft Secession
From “The Largest Campaign Finance Penalty in American History Cost Meta About an Hour of Revenue”
Who you are contacting
Your state legislators
What you are asking for
Readers who want these sentences in their state’s law can send them to their state legislators:
- In lieu of the fine authorized by this section, the court may impose a fine not exceeding the greater of three times the gross value gained or three times the gross loss caused.
- For a person who intentionally violates this title after a prior judgment under this title, the court may impose a civil penalty of up to one percent of the person’s annual gross revenue.
The call to action as published on Oct. 19
Legislators can change the cost of corporate criminality with one sentence each. The first sentence is adapted from Ohio’s corrupt-activity statute. Any state can add it to the section of the criminal code that caps fines for corporations:
In lieu of the fine authorized by this section, the court may impose a fine not exceeding the greater of three times the gross value gained or three times the gross loss caused.
The second sentence applies to campaign disclosure laws like Washington State’s. It uses the ceiling the European Union’s Digital Markets Act sets for a gatekeeper platform that supplies incorrect information, 1% of total worldwide annual revenue. For Meta, that would be about $2 billion:
For a person who intentionally violates this title after a prior judgment under this title, the court may impose a civil penalty of up to one percent of the person’s annual gross revenue.
Readers who want these sentences in their state’s law can send them to their state legislators. Entering an address in Plural Policy’s free legislator lookup shows who those legislators are (this link opens the lookup). The Washington State Legislature convenes Jan. 11. In Ohio, both candidates for attorney general can be asked before Nov. 3 whether they will retry Jones and Dowling.
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