This will cause actual damage to the lives of real people. Will anyone be held accountable?
In December 1999, tobacco companies paid California counties, cities and the state $314,169,788. And that was just the first payment.
On the website of the California attorney general at oag.ca.gov/tobacco/msa, documents from the case are posted for public view. Along with the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, there’s a Consent Decree, a Memorandum of Understanding, and an Agreement Regarding Interpretation of Memorandum of Understanding.
In order for this revenue-through-settlements operation to work, the companies have to be convinced that a jury would find them guilty of something so heinous that fines of hundreds of billions of dollars are totally justified and maybe not even adequate. On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies. “From extreme heat to drought and water shortages, the climate crisis they have caused is undeniable,” Bonta said. “It is time they pay to abate the harm they have caused.”
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