<a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2018/11/30/cohen-among-select-few-charged-with-lying-to-congress/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rollcall.com/2018/11/30/cohen-among-select-few-c...</a><p>> Pursuing criminal charges against those who are untruthful to Congress would be a huge shift from tradition. “Almost no one is prosecuted for lying to Congress,” attorney PJ Meitl wrote in a 2006 law review article on the topic, “in fact, <i>only six people have been convicted of perjury or related charges in relation to Congress in the last sixty years.</i>”<p>Emphasis mine.
Not suggesting that this practice is ok or reasonable, but many other big tech companies have used similar advantages to steal from smaller innovators.<p>Apple, Microsoft, and Google have all copied novel technologies from their smaller business partners, effectively shutting out the creators.<p>Walmart and other big chains have used their sales information to know which products were worth making “house brand” copies of, then promoting those alongside the original ones.<p>Heck, even lying to Congress has been common and largely unpunished for years now.<p>American capitalism is a formidable power.