Wilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoChiquita found liable for financing paramilitary groupwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1767arrow-down12cross-posted to: usnews@lemy.lol
arrow-up1765arrow-down1external-linkChiquita found liable for financing paramilitary groupwww.cnn.comWilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square85fedilinkcross-posted to: usnews@lemy.lol
minus-squareFidel_CashflowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75·17 days agoThe fine? $38 million. Chiquita Brands International’s profits in 2023? $3.1 billion. That’s a slap on the wrist if anything. Just the cost of doing business I guess.
minus-squaredornad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·edit-217 days agoTo put that into context: if all you had was a $100 USD Note, the equivalent of that “slap on the wrist” fine would be $1.23
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down3·17 days agoI’ll do the math when I get home, but that serms high. Gut instinct I thought it would be more like $0.10.
minus-squareRippleEffect@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·17 days ago(38 mill/3.1bil)*100=1.2258 roughly
The fine? $38 million.
Chiquita Brands International’s profits in 2023? $3.1 billion.
That’s a slap on the wrist if anything. Just the cost of doing business I guess.
To put that into context:
if all you had was a $100 USD Note, the equivalent of that “slap on the wrist” fine would be $1.23
I’ll do the math when I get home, but that serms high. Gut instinct I thought it would be more like $0.10.
(38 mill/3.1bil)*100=1.2258 roughly