Corrupt Ploys: Standard Business Practice

When you stop and think about it, J. Rockefeller established the railway network that cris-crosses the nation by putting his competition out of business!  Nobody, virtually, finds fault for his doing that. And in 2008, as a result of the Wall Street Financial Crisis, nobody in the banking industry (just about) was sent to prison, despite collusion among the large banks, the rating agencies, lending agencies, and governmental departments!

I think there's an important lesson to be learned here.  As long as the particular society can recover successfully from the deleterious effects reaped upon it, there's really no harm done. Nobody may be held accountable.

Look at Brazil today.  Ms. Rousseff is supposedly to be impeached from the office of President of the country.  Now, the proceeding might indeed take place.  But why, when, for instance, there's massive corruption in its oil industry, with businessmen reaping hordes from kickbacks!  She could not have done more harm than these others!  Nonetheless, why she may indeed be impeached is because the country is experiencing the worst recession in decades.  She may be looked upon a its spiritual cause simply because of her leadership position in government!  Just as the royal family was adjudged the cause of the French Revolution during a starvation era!   

So a country, a culture, will adjudge its leaders by the economic and social conditions the country is experiencing.  Let's go back to Rockefeller.  What he did in getting rid of his competition may have been unethical, even immoral; but the results of the society were outstanding:  he brought about a national rail system.

I personally have an opinion as to why the cartel giant Guzman was captured for good.  He represented the means drugs were shipped from South and Central America to the US, etc.  When it became fashionable to use submarines and the seas as a more profitable means for shipment, he was no longer in a position of prominence in the underworld.  Well, it's just a theory,

In any case, society seems to be the real judge of whether to impose its justice on its leaders on the basis of whether it has benefited from some corrupt ploy a "heinous person(s)" has (have) used.