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Companies must be punished when they do wrong, but the legal system has become an extortion racket WHO runs the world’s most lucrative shakedown operation? The Sicilian mafia? The People’s Liberation Army in China? The kleptocracy in the Kremlin? If you are a big business, all these are less grasping than America’s regulatory system. The formula is simple: find a large company that may (or may not) have done something wrong; threaten its managers with commercial ruin, preferably with criminal charges; force them to use their shareholders’ money to pay an enormous fine to drop the charges in a secret settlement (so nobody can check the details). Then repeat with another large company. economist/news/leaders/21614138-companies-must-be-punished-when-they-do-wrong-legal-system-has-become-extortion?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:46:18 +0000

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