A former executive of Massey energy claims that the defunct company CEO was part of the conspiracy to violate mine safety laws.

梅西能源一位前高管声称，公司前任首席执行官在违反煤矿安全法一案中也有受贿行为。

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Yet the company fears lawsuits from individual management board members if they aren't given a bonus, especially those who can claim that they weren't directly involved in the conspiracy.

但大众担心不发奖金会导致个别管理层成员起诉，特别是能理直气壮宣称跟“排放门”事件没关系的高管。

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In 1996, after an eight month trial, the two brothers and Larry Trachtenberg were cleared of charges of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud company pensioners.

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But attorneys for Skilling and Lay pounded at Koenig, trying to get him to concede the defense theory there was no company-wide fraud or conspiracy at Enron, but merely the Venn diagram of a few bad corporate apples--such as ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow --lots of shaky investors and a brutal market.

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It is vaguely possible to construct conspiracy theories about a large company being behind it.

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