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Related: About this forumElizabeth Warren Challenges Clinton, Sanders to Prosecute Corporate Crime Better Than Obama
Three days before the Iowa caucuses, Senator Elizabeth Warren has released what might have been her closing argument had she been a candidate in the presidential race.
Its a thorough indictment of a rigged system in Washington that allows corporate criminals to go free while those without the same power and influence get severely punished.
The report a 12-page booklet entitled Rigged Justice: How Weak Enforcement Lets Corporate Offenders Off Easy cites 20 well-documented civil and criminal cases from 2015 in which the federal government failed to require meaningful accountability.
Of the 20 cases, which span Wall Street, the auto industry, pharmaceuticals, natural resources, and more, only one resulted in any convictions to executives, and that was for a misdemeanor in the Upper Big Branch mine case, where 29 Americans died.
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https://theintercept.com/2016/01/29/elizabeth-warren-challenges-clinton-sanders-to-prosecute-corporate-crime-better-than-obama/
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Cal33
(7,018 posts)to all, and rugged bull-doggedness. It will take time, but if anyone can bring back
real democracy to America again, they are the ones to do it. Let us, each in our
own way, back them up all the way.
They happen to be the right people to come along just at the right time, when they
are so sorely needed!