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Simpsons did it.

> Canary M. Burns was the legal owner of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

> Burns mention that the legal plant owner is Canary M. Burns because this protects Mr. Burns from responsibility for any wrongdoing by the power plant

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Canary_M._Burns

Of course they were just parodying a century or two of corporate fraud; it's not exactly a recent innovation.



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