Different fact pattern. The toxic dumping in that case was not alleged to have been conducted illegally - the case was brought in negligence and fraud, which were actions that the corporation had taken and not individuals. The “proles” that did the dumping of the wastewater into the ponds (or more likely, the proles that built the pipes that led to the ponds, since the wastewater almost certainly wasn’t dumped by hand) would neither have had the information necessary for negligence imputed to the corporation nor would have been involved in the false/misleading statements that underlay the fraud charges.
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