MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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USA Today, Dec. 13/14, 2012
Cooperating with investigators is one way people charged with federal crimes can escape tough prison sentences. This map shows the percentage of federal convictions from 2006 to 2011 where sentences were reduced in exchange for "substantial assistance" (SA), according to a USA TODAY investigation.
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The extent of cooperation in the federal court is often secret, in part because judges routinely seal court records that could reveal who provided information to the government and what they got in return. To figure out how often prosecutors agreed to reduced sentences in exchange for information, USA TODAY analyzed data on 545,000 criminal cases from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which tracks the complicated array of considerations that goes into every federal prison sentence. USA TODAY used those anonymous records, ranging from 2006-2011, to determine how many defendants actually had their sentences reduced. [....]
Comments
Just a thought.
Capitalism is supposed to work because corporations are supposed to be fighting with each other.
The corporation (by state charter) must woo the consumer in competition with other corporations; the corporation should be using dirty tricks against other corporate entities in order to libel and slander those entities; the corporation is constantly stealing the ideas of other corporate entities and then adding something of substance to those ideas; the corporation is supposed to be constantly in court pleading against the tactics of other corporate entities....etc. etc. etc.
The other safeguard against corporate injustice is supposed to be the 'good citizen' who stands up and informs the public of corporate actions that threaten the citizenry.
Instead courts recognize employee contractual provisions that forbid publication of any act that is based upon what that employee learned while being an employee.
Instead corporations sign secret agreements with other corporations with court sanctions that end up in truces between the companies to the detriment of the public good.
The 'snitch' aint a bad model for the government to use in the corporate situation just like when the government uses that model against organized crime.
Let us not confuse the issue. The greatest crimes committed in this nation are not committed by the Mafia; they are committed by the capitalist corporation.
I have no idea what this post means. hahahaha
by Richard Day on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 4:22pm