Idea: Create a company that commits criminal acts, like a repo company that reposseses items from people that haven't defaulted on any payment. Its like giving yourself a license to steal. This idea came from an actual company that I dealt with at work. We had an HR service that would take care of the paying taxes to the government, pay insurance costs and write our checks, all for a small percentage fee. So we were all getting checks from this company and it showed on the checks how much money was deducted for benefits and taxes, so we had no worries. But, after an employee tried to use the health insurance they supposed they had, they found that they couldn't get the insurance carrier to pay the bill. There was some back and forth accusations for some time, but eventually the HR service provider suddenly seemed to disappear. We got another provider, but these insurance claims never were resolved and eventually my company looked into the problem and found that no payments were sent to the insurance provider and that every employee was dropped from the plans. We also found out that the taxes to the government were not paid. The company went ahead with litigation but the contacts for the HR service could not be reached and as far as we could go with litigation without them being represented was a ruling stating that we had grounds to sue this HR service provider. We hired a private investigator to try to track down this phantom company, but they were nowhere to be found. It turned out that the person who incorporated the HR service provider was no longer in the country and that the contacts for the company must have been using fictitious names. Later on a law firm contacted us regarding taking part in a class action lawsuit, but as the proceedings continued, without a defendant, the case could only go so far. So the hundred or so plaintiffs, had to pick up the pieces, pay the government for taxes they thought were paid and have their employees eat the losses for the medical bills. The government never seemed to take the initiative to track these criminals down - it was always up to us. I love how white collar crime in this country is so ignored by those who try to enforce the laws.
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