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well a town is being
polluted down there in Peru

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but hey this guy
needs to buy some copper.

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I’m getting paid
a commission too.

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Our information that we receive
does not include anything

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about the environmental
conditions

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because until
the environmental conditions

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become a commodity
themselves or are being traded

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then obviously we will not
have anything to do with that.

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It doesn’t come into
our psyche at all.

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It's so far away and
it's you hardly hear

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anything about it.
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I mean keep in mind there are
things going on right in our

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backyards for god sake.
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We trade live hogs.
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I mean there are so many pigs
in the state of Carolina

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and they’re
polluting the rivers

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but how often do you
find out about that?

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At Multinational Monitor
we’ve put together a list

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of the top corporate
criminals of the 1990s.

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We went back and looked at
all the criminal fines that

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corporations had
paid in the decade.

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Exxon pled guilty in connection
to federal criminal charges

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with the Valdez spill and paid
$ 125 million in criminal fines.

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General Electric
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was guilty of defrauding
the federal government

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and paid $ 9.5 million
in criminal fines.

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Chevron was guilty of
environmental violations

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and paid $ 6.5 million
in fines.

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Mitsubishi was guilty
of anti-trust violations

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and paid $ 1.8 million in fines.
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IBM was guilty of
illegal exports and paid.

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Eastman Kodak was guilty of
environmental violations.

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Pfizer the drug manufacturer
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was guilty of
antitrust violations.

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Odwalla was guilty of food and
drug regulatory violations.

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Sears was guilty of...
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Damon Clinical Laboratories
was guilty of...

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Blue Cross Blue
Shield was guilty of


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