This username looks to have been intended as trolling. That's not allowed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11433189), so I've banned the account.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674145 and marked it off-topic.

Honestly I think higher ups in finance have more money to use to sweep it under the rug.

As femboner said, there's whole companies in public relations and image management dedicated to doing stuff like that. Plus individuals with a great representation for misrepresenting stories. Spin doctors I believe they're called.