A U.S. jury on Tuesday found the National Association of Realtors and some residential brokerages, including units of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway , liable to pay $1.78 billion in damages for conspiring to artificially inflate commissions for home sales.
Unfortunately, hitting people in their bank account is the only remediation our system has for this sort of thing. The good news is that these people only care about money, so you can legally hit them where it hurts the most. Bad news is that the real victims only get a fraction of what they should.