Comment on Greens senator threatens Woolworths CEO with six months in prison for contempt of Senate
Nath@aussie.zone 2 months agoNot a complete list:
- Andrew Ferguson, Bight Abalone
- Matthew Perrin, Billabong
- Gavin Pollock, Shire of Ravensthorpe
- Daniel Tartak, Bingo Industries (skip bins) *
- Emmanuel Roussakis, Aussie Skips *
* These two were convicted together for price fixing
Gloria@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
As I said: not for contempt. Nobody who can afford a good lawyer will ever go to prison for contempt. Also: That is a depressing short list for 20 years. As if not more CEO deserved to go to prison for wage theft and other things.
Nath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I just pasted the names and companies from the first few Google hits. There were plenty more hits, but I wasn’t going to read them all.
I actually couldn’t find anyone who had ever been imprisoned for contempt of senate. The charge exists, and a prison term is possible, but I don’t know that it has ever actually happened. It comes over as an hollow threat.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I mean, establishing that there’s a problem with CEOs not going to gaol for contempt of Senate would first require establishing that CEOs are committing contempt of Senate, at the very least to a standard of “a reasonable concern exists”.