Who Goes To Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap From Wall Street to Main Street (1/2)

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www.democracyno... - Award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi is out with an explosive new book that asks why the vast majority of white-collar criminals have avoided prison since the financial crisis began, while an unequal justice system imprisons the poor and people of color on a mass scale. In "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap," Taibbi explores how the Depression-level income gap between the wealthy and the poor is mirrored by a "justice" gap in who is targeted for prosecution and imprisonment. "It is much more grotesque to consider the non-enforcement of white-collar criminals when you do consider how incredibly aggressive law enforcement is with regard to everybody else," Taibbi says.
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21 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 22

@dereckvon 10 лет назад

Good interview. It's pretty obvious to me we will never see justice with regard to white collar crime.

@takethegate2108 10 лет назад

The only other option is to plant drugs on elites, bankers and politicians.

@us89na 8 лет назад

Look at how Hilary is getting away with all her crimes. Just another powerful person untouchable by justice.

@infiniteinfiniteinfi 10 лет назад

This problem and all others will only be solved if the people get informed and organized. Unions, activist groups and peoples movements are our only real hope.

@lencho234 10 лет назад

About time we talk about this bull. Let's get these assess

@texme 10 лет назад

the land of the free

@GoSuMonSteR 10 лет назад

Try to find an interview with Matt Taibbi on a major network. You won't.

@zzz-cb3xe 4 года назад

The people who are the heads of the companies should be charged or the ones who are responsible for the fraud should be charged individually and the companies should be handed to the citizen.....

@DarylBuck 10 лет назад

"Settlements" are just the Justice Department gettin' THEIR CUT.

@ss702rs 10 лет назад

I have to disagree somewhat with the title... it is not a Wealth Gap to gets you persecuted. It is the Political Influence Gap that can get you pinched. As Frank Underwood (House of Cards) said "You may have all the money, Raymond, but I have all the men with guns." Truer words were never spoken... Matt Taibbi should have named the book "American Injustice in the Age of the Capitalist Cronyism and Neo Fascism." It would have been more accurate.

@scbluesman13 10 лет назад

I don't think that the title is implying that one is the cause of the other, so much as he was juxtaposing 2 different realities within the same justice system which exist for the rich and poor - and letting the reader come to their conclusions as to which influences are driving this wedge. Obviously there are inferences, though.