I'm not saying that some punishment may have been appropriate but 1.7Bn plus damages on top seems plenty based on my understanding from the article rather than that they got off lightly as suggested by the post I was responding to.
The relevance of the report in the UK is that it suggests not reporting to the US was oversight rather than a decision to take commercial advantage of the knowledge rather than bring in the authorities (unless they were counting on the UK authorities being useless).
The relevance of the report in the UK is that it suggests not reporting to the US was oversight rather than a decision to take commercial advantage of the knowledge rather than bring in the authorities (unless they were counting on the UK authorities being useless).