> 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.
> 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.