The Golden Mile - the Case for the Corporate Death Penalty

2019-09-08

Author : Charles Moster
Release : 2019-09-08
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Download or read book The Golden Mile - the Case for the Corporate Death Penalty written by Charles Moster. This book was released on 2019-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Moster is a graduate of Georgetown University and also holds a Masters and Law Degree. He worked as a litigation attorney for the Reagan and Bush Administrations prior to joining the private section in Washington. He is the founder of the Moster Law Firm with offices throughout Texas and the author of Six Pillars of the New American Partnership among other titles. He is also an award-winning playwright, composer, and journalist.

The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty

2017-01-31 Law

Author : Mary Kreiner Ramirez
Release : 2017-01-31
Genre : Law
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Download or read book The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty written by Mary Kreiner Ramirez. This book was released on 2017-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the wrongdoing underlying the 2008 financial crisis An unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other large banks settled securities fraud claims with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the investing public. But a corporation cannot commit fraud except through human beings working at and managing the firm. Rather than breaking up these powerful megabanks, essentially imposing a corporate death penalty, the government simply accepted fines that essentially punished innocent shareholders instead of senior leaders at the megabanks. It allowed the real wrongdoers to walk away from criminal responsibility. In The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, Mary Kreiner Ramirez and Steven A. Ramirez examine the best available evidence about the wrongdoing underlying the financial crisis. They reveal that the government failed to use its most powerful law enforcement tools despite overwhelming proof of wide-ranging and large-scale fraud on Wall Street before, during, and after the crisis. The pattern of criminal indulgences exposes the onset of a new degree of crony capitalism in which the most economically and political powerful can commit financial crimes of vast scale with criminal and regulatory immunity. A new economic royalty has seized the commanding heights of our economy through their control of trillions in corporate and individual wealth and their ability to dispense patronage. The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty shows that this new lawlessness poses a profound threat that urgently demands political action and proposes attainable measures to restore the rule of law in the financial sector.

Murder at the Supreme Court

2013 Law

Author : Martin Clancy
Release : 2013
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Murder at the Supreme Court written by Martin Clancy. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a unique behind the scenes look at the capital punishment cases that made it to the highest court in the land.

Peculiar Institution

2011-02-01 History

Author : David Garland
Release : 2011-02-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Peculiar Institution written by David Garland. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America’s political institutions and cultural conflicts. America’s radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable– and unwilling– to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture. In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution– and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.

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