Multiple, Unconscionable Crimes In my mind if not in the eyes of the criminal justice system, Jacob Wetterling’s murderer is guilty of not one but two, equally heinous crimes: 1) abducting, molesting, and killing 11 year-old Jacob Wetterling in 1989; and 2) lying about his knowledge of the boy’s whereabouts for 27 years, thereby denying closure and...Read More
Needed: Financial Nuremberg Trials “Citigroup and U.S. Reach $7 Billion Mortgage Settlement.” —headline; NYT (7/14/14). “BNP Paribas SA agreed to pay nearly $9 billion and plead guilty to crimes for violating U.S. sanctions, an unprecedented settlement that includes a year-long ban on the French bank’s ability to conduct certain U.S. dollar transactions. –“BNP Paribas Draws...Read More
Crime and (No) Punishment. Still. “President Obama [chose to] save the banks rather than throw all the bankers in jail, which they deserved.” –Thomas Friedman, “Hard Lines, Red Line, and Green Lines“; The NYT (9/23/2012). As unsavory as Richard Nixon’s pardon by Gerald Ford was, you could at least argue two things: 1) it was...Read More