Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime?
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-21/has-it-become-impossible-to-prosecute-white-collar-crime-
The Justice Department acknowledged that things haven’t been going too well in this area when it released new guidelines in September for prosecuting corporate crime. One of the key changes, it said, would be that the department would focus more on individual financial criminals. There’s nothing wrong with bringing an ambitious case to trial and losing. But the pattern suggests that law enforcement may have lost the ability to choose the right cases, or that it lacks the expertise to try them in a courtroom in a way that makes sense to jurors, many drawn from the ranks of working people who must struggle to understand the vast, mind-boggling modern financial system.