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October 23, 2019 |
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How Corporate Lawbreakers Get a Leg Up at the Justice Department
By Nick Schwellenbach
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Since the financial crisis a decade ago, many have opined that the department has been too soft on corporations and their executives when they break the law. More recently, prosecution trends have taken a downward turn. Justice Department data show white-collar prosecutions in fiscal year 2019 are approaching an all-time low number of annual prosecutions since those records were first collected in the mid-1980s, according to the nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which analyzed the data. (David Burnham, a co-director of TRAC, is a former POGO board member.)
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2019
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