Criminal liability of an individual for corporate conduct · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 20.25 Criminal liability of an individual for corporate conduct.
A person is criminally liable for conduct constituting an offense which he performs or causes to be performed in the name of or in behalf of a corporation to the same extent as if such conduct were performed in his own name or behalf.
A person who commits or causes a crime in the name of or on behalf of a corporation is criminally liable just as if they had done it for themselves. ★ Acting for a company is no shield.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.