A helpful graphic from the good folks at Information Is Beautiful, who gathered and visualized the biggest corporate fines of the last seven years as both raw amounts and as a percentage of each company’s profits: “That way you can see for yourself if the punishment was painful or puny.”
Click through for the full version, which covers this year’s fines against Abbot Labs (ABT), Barclays (BCS), Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) – and from past years, the big oil spills from BP (BP) and Exxon Mobil (XOM):
