Selection bias. Lots of other companies did borderline illegal or fully illegal things and they are gone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collap

Selection bias. Lots of other companies did borderline illegal or fully illegal things and they are gone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_and_scandals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_an... (although many of these are incompetence collapses).