Tech giants' payouts go to everyone but affected citizens. US Supremes now urged to sort it out

If you are going to redirect the money (punitive damages), please redirect the money to the IRS to partially cover the overly generous spending spree that the Republicans have started. Do not give the money to one federal branch, as the next year politicians will reduce spending to that branch in the amount of the redirected money.

What does embezzlement mean in the US ?

[...] the remaining $5.3m will be split between seven organizations, agreed to by the lawyers and Google.

Three of the seven are law schools that the attorneys' attended - Harvard University, Stanford University and the Chicago-Kent College of Law – and the remaining four are among Google's favorite institutions who do work that benefit the tech giant and which the company already supplies millions to - AARP, Carnegie Mellon University, the MacArthur Foundation, and the World Privacy Forum.

Is that not the very definition of embezzlement ?

If I were US supreme court, I would go after the lawyers from both sides ... how come they can negotiate where the funds go ? This looking more and more like the richer are getting greedier by the year ...

Tax deductible?

Are corporate fines tax deductible? Not that Google pay tax anyway...