Today’s links How to screw up a whistleblower law: We want kingpins, not powerless underlings. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. How to screw up a whistleblower law (permalink) Corporate crime is notoriously underpoliced and underprosecuted. Mostly, that’s because we just choose not to do anything about it. American corporations commit crimes at 20X the rate of real humans, and their crimes are far worse than any crime committed by a human, but they are almost never prosecuted: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card We can’t even bear to utter the words “corporate crime”: instead, we deploy a whole raft of euphemisms like “risk and compliance,” and that ole fave, the trusty “white-collar crime”: https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/#a-single-proposition The Biden DOJ promised it would be different, and they weren’t kidding. The DOJ’s antitrust division is kicking ass, doing more than the division has done in generations, really swinging for the fences: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money Main Justice – the rest of the DOJ – promised that it would do the same. Deputy AG Lisa Monaco promised an end to those bullshit “deferred prosecution agreements” that let corporate America literally get away with murder. She promised to prosecute companies and individual executives. She promised a lot: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money Was she serious? Well, it’s not looking good. Monaco’s number two…Pluralistic: How to screw up a whistleblower law (15 Apr 2024)