Less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the Biden Justice Department announced it could be handing corporations a get-out-of-jail-free card, even if they have committed multiple crimes, earned significant profit from their wrongdoing, and failed to self-disclose the misconduct — as long as the companies demonstrate they “acted in good faith” to try to come clean.
Biden’s Last-Minute Gift To Corporate Lawbreakers
A new Justice Department policy update says that even repeat corporate offenders can avoid prosecution if they “make good faith efforts” to come clean.
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If only they could've waited a couple months, then liberals could've blamed this on Trump and ignored the revolving door between the DOJ's "chickenshit club" and the white-collar white-shoe firms that has never stopped spinning.
Good Heavens! Another pat pat pat - that's okay dear corporate, inc. The consequences of their misdeeds again not in measure to that level of rip off of the people....so, how about, comparable invitations of mercy towards the other tier justice system, how about Leonard Peltier being released? whistle blowers' sentences nulled? all thrown in the slammer for non-violent crimes?
The wolf guarding the hen house. Seems to me if they went after the most egregious cases i.e. slam dunk ones which also had the potential for huge fines They could afford these prosecutions.
This is almost a "do crime, then tell us and it's free" policy.
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The system is irrevocably broken, perhaps the only "good" that will come out of the convict's 2nd term is the system will be totally obliterated and rotted beyond repair, requiring a complete do over.