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Why Didn’t Anyone Go to Prison for the Financial Crisis?

You're Wrong About

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Is There Willful Blindness Going On?

Almost every white collar case is heard by a federal judge just because state and local agencies really don't have the capacity to do any elite deviance work anymore. All their white collar crime cases are like super low stakes. So I had to look this up because it doesn't show up at any of the law review articles, but there's 670 federal judges. Four out of five of them are white. Three out of four of them are male, and their average age is 69. Like, obviously, we live in a system, whether it's masculinity or the kind of capitalism that we're all experiencing. You say that like it's a bad acid trip, it kind of is.

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