What was that joke? I’ll believe that a corporation is a person when one goes to jail?
(Okay, that’s not the exact joke, but you get the idea.)
As ever, the reverse (or inverse, or converse—tough to tell), also works: a person with the wealth of a corporation will be treated like one: pay a fine, and walk away.
Of course, one could argue this is only fair: only the very wealthy could have engaged in the kinds of criminal activity of which Bernie Ecclestone was accused.