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David Cay Johnston: The Big Cheat

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

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Is There Anything That's Illegal?

America has very weak white collar crime laws, and our public corruption laws are similarly weak. Our supreme court under chief justice roberts,. has been legalizing extortion and bribery of public officials. And in that was there anything that was illegal? I recognized what you said earlier, the courts didn't want to take up the emoluments issues, but were were. What was the trump white house able to work the system, get around it, so that it was legal?

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