The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger (pg. 94)

“Collateral consequences” was, and remains, an ill-defined concept. How worried should the government be if a punishment causes the company to go out of business? Should regulators worry about the cashiering of innocent employees? What about customers, suppliers, or competitors? Should they fret about financial crises? From this rather innocuous mention, the little notion of collateral consequences would blossom into the great strangling vine that came to be known after the financial crisis of 2008 by its shorthand: “too big to jail.”