Particularly if board members have taken a proactive role in uncovering past executive chicanery, prosecutors may let the board off the hook even in companies where the practice was widespread.
There will probably be accusations of some sort of mismanagement used as a hook to make claims about the board of directors being asleep at the switch.
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