
Why Didn’t Anyone Go to Prison for the Financial Crisis?
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The Challenges of White Collar Crime
The main reason why nobody went to jail for the financial crisis is that everything they did wasn't illegal because these laws have been cut back so much. The only way to prosecute somebody for an act like that is to prosecute their intentions and their motivations, right? They're like, I knew it was fake when I sold it to you. So what's interesting is like the facts in white collar cases are almost never disputed.
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