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GUEST: Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen, a long-time public interest advocate and activist, as well as an expert on a wide variety of issues ranging from corporate accountability and government transparency, to trade and globalization, to economic and regulatory policy.

The Justice Department last week under the leadership of Loretta Lynch, announced that it would begin focusing more strongly on white-collar crime. In a series of rules issued to federal prosecutors all over the country, Attorney General Lynch essentially acknowledged that her department had done embarrassingly little since the 2008 recession, to hold Wall Street Executives accountable.

Speaking to the New York Times, deputy attorney general Sally Q. Yates, who authored the memo, said, “Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people…It’s only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable. The public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom.”

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