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Corporate Criminal Liability: An Overview of Federal Law
Corporate Criminal liability : An Overview of Federal Law Charles Doyle Senior Specialist in American Public Law October 30, 2013 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 R43293 Corporate Criminal liability : An Overview of Federal Law Congressional Research Service Summary A corporation is criminally liable for the Federal crimes its employees or agents commit in its interest. Corporate officers, employees, and agents are individually liable for the crimes they commit, for the crimes they conspire to commit, for the foreseeable crimes their coconspirators commit, for the crimes whose commission they aid and abet, and for the crimes whose perpetrators they assist after the fact.
civil offense based upon nonfeasance to such guilt based upon affirmative misconduct. Since such an offense does not have the normal mens-rea requirement for criminal guilty, and conviction may be supported on the basis of respondeat superior, the possibility of convicting a corporation of a civil offense became firmly established. For years it ...
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