Elizabeth Warren's new 1%: the percentage of fraudulent profits companies pay in fines
by Cory Doctorow from on (#128SS)
In Rigged Justice: 2016How Weak Enforcement LetsCorporate Offenders Off Easy, a 12-page booklet, Senator Elizabeth Warren documents corporations that were caught undertaking grossly fraudulent, highly profitable actions, and were made to pay a trivial fraction of those profits in fines -- fines become a part of the cost of doing business, not a deterrent to criminal behavior. (more")