No Jail For The Wicked

I like to read books. I am not sure how much good it’s done me. I wish everyone read more.

Take a look at the bibliography in this short article from Ralph Nader posted at SHEERPOST. Think of the implications of this. Why are normal people so powerless in the face of this kind of corruption and greed? Perhaps, throughout history, the lower classes have always been relatively powerless and lazy.

The “Players” make the rules and have the freedom to break them. There are no crimes they can’t commit with impunity.

We are living in a culture where one only needs money.

Along the same vein, don’t miss this post from Christopher Hedges, American Satyricon.

A licentious, money-drenched, morally bankrupt and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and prey on the weak like human vultures, rise to power in societies in terminal decline. This class of parasites was savagely parodied in the first-century satirical novel “Satyricon” by Gaius Petronius, written during the reign of Nero. Epstein and his cohorts for years engaged in sexual perversions of Petronian proportions, as Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown, whose dogged reporting was largely responsible for reopening the federal investigation in Epstein and Maxwell, documents in her book “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.”

Despite many books being published on corporate crooks, there have been no corporate crime law reforms, no additional prosecutions of these CEOs, not even comprehensive congressional or state legislative hearing. What gives?

Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement by John Coffee

1. Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation by Elizabeth Burch

2. Why Not Jail? Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance … by Rena Steinzor

3. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

4. Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm by Michael J. Saks and Stephan Landsman

5. Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?… by Guillaume Coudray

6. The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption… by Carey Gillam

7. The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David Courtwright

8. Frankie: How One Woman Prevented a Pharmaceutical Disaster by James Essinger and Sandra Koutzenko

9. Killer Airbags by Jerry Cox

10. Making the World Safe for Coke by Susan Greenhalgh

11. Big Dirty Money by Jennifer Taub

12. Business and Human Rights by Ellen Hertz

13. Industrial-Strength Denial by Barbara Freese

14. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker

15. Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations by Brandon L. Garrett

16. Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America’s Corporate Age by Samuel W. Buell

17. Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care by John Geyman

18. Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen

19. Global Banks on Trial by Pierre-Hugues Verdier

20. Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception by David Michaels

21. Murder, Inc.: How Unregulated Industry Kills or Injures Thousands of Americans Every Year…And What You Can Do About It by Gerald Goldhaber

22. Paradise Lost at Sea: Rethinking Cruise Vacations by Ross A. Klein

23. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller

24. Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in An Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller

25. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

26. GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods by Sheldon Krimsky and Marion Nestle

27. GM: Paint it Red: Inside General Motors’ Culture of Failure by Nicholas Kachman

28. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by Jesse Eisinger

29. Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy by Richard Cordray

30. First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat by Christopher Shaw

31. Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War by Erik Edstrom

32. Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn

33. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

34. Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar

35. Public Citizens by Paul Sabin

36. The United States of War by David Vine

37. The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions by Chuck Collins

38. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis

39. The Case Against George W. Bush by Steven C. Markoff

40. Tax the Rich: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Erica Payne and Morris Pearl

41. Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet by Dr. Michael Jacobson

42. Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy by Daniel G. Newman

43. Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits by James D. Zirin

44. Stealing Our Democracy by Don Siegelman

45. Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse

46. All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator by Monique El-Faizy and Barry Levine

47. Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic by Christopher Shaw

48. Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink by Seth M. Siegel

49. Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy by Mike German

50. United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America… by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon

51. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu

52. The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail

53. Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator by Dr. Gregory Jaczko

54. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

55. America, Democracy & You: Where Have All the Citizens Gone? by Ronald R. Fraser

56. Unsettled (on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family) by Ryan Hampton

57. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

58. China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh

59. Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World by Nomi Prins

60. Attention All Passengers: The Airlines’ Dangerous Descent and What You Can Do To Reclaim Our Skies by William McGee

61. Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science by Carey Gillam

62. The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop It by Steven Clifford

63. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer

64. The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, …. and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald