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Frankly, I'd just prefer really huge fines, preferably scaled as a percentage of either gross or net revenue or profit.

Going that route instead of fines it should be a percentage of ownership made public. That:

1. Dilutes that shares, punishing the people who can effect the most change (shareholders) 2. Puts the government on the inside. With ownership, the government can then demand access/knowledge that they can't from a purely private company. And no company is going to want to deal with that headache if they don't have to.

That assumes that the state is punishing companies for criminalitythat it would also be a good idea to own. While that might sometimes be the case, it certainly isn't always the case.

Unless that percentage was over 100% of the profit they'd still be making money from doing illegal things and the fines just become a cost of doing business.

Who said the fines had to be under 100% ?

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