Several senior executives were suspended without pay pending formal charges.

Marshall Crane was stripped of his corporate duties and asked to resign.

Past accident claims across the firm’s history were officially reopened for full re-examination.

And Corbin stood outside company headquarters, before a bank of reporters, and said the thing his attorneys had begged him not to say.

“While I did not personally make these decisions,” he told them, “I directly benefited from an executive system that prioritized speed over human life.

That responsibility belongs to me, and I will not run from it.” He did not have to say it.