Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.
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When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.
Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.