Trumped-up justice: New report shows corporate crime going unpunished under Trump

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Salon

The law and order the president seeks to restore does not seem to apply to violations committed by the corporate class, and the threats that America must be made “safe” from apparently do not include pollution, rip-offs and recklessness unleashed by deregulated corporate greed. Enforcement against corporate criminals and regulatory violations, a new Public Citizen report finds, has dramatically plummeted since Trump took office.

Public Citizen found that in 11 out of 12 agencies led by a Trump administration official for most of 2017, the dollar amount of penalties imposed on corporate violators dropped, in most cases by more than 50 percent.

At the DOJ, corporate penalties dropped 90 percent; at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), penalty amounts against all violators dropped by 94 percent.

During Trump’s first year in office alone, he had triple the number of CEO meetings as Obama had over the course of seven years. Trump, a corporate executive himself, and the executives and former executives in his immediate circle include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former adviser Carl Icahn, and intimate allies such as Las Vegas Sands’ Sheldon Adelson, Dow Chemical’s Andrew Liveris and Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2018/08/14/trumped-up-justice-new-report-shows-corporate-penalties-dropped-90-percent-under-trump/

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[Mc Mike]

1. Drain the swamp.

He always does and did those white collar criminal things, so they're ok to do. He's strongly law and order.

Have to have priorities, he's going after the real crooks, salvadoran street gang criminals disguised as mothers and infants, the FBI's leadership people, his political opponents and adversaries. Because he hates crooks and crime, and he's a strong law and order president who's drawing the line. He's outraged. And we have limited law enforcement resources.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. Of course not.

He's their poster boy.