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Enter Jack Smith as US Attorney General 2028 to remedy this.

Crime is legal now

The first word tells you why this administration is not interested in prosecuting this crime.

No, most of that drop was under Obama: 2009-2016. Liberals just don’t get that Trump is the continuation of a trend.

The statutory bar for proving fraud is unreasonably high (and intentional of course).

Take, for example, Duke Energy in the 2010s. Making tens of billions per year in revenue, fined $6 million for permanently contaminating a river with coal ash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Da... How will that poor business ever pay a $6 mil fine with their measly $22.75 billion in revenue?

I will fix it

This is what elite impunity looks like. America’s political and legal establishment has spent decades retreating from the task of holding wealth and power accountable. Extend the graph back another half-century, and the trend would probably look much the same.

Fraud was legalized in the '80s. Full stop.

Maybe they all just stopped doing crimes.

Every psychopath, conman, and thief knows this administration is pro crime and are busy acting true to their natures knowing there won’t be consequences.

Now's your time embezzlers, fraudsters & insider traders!! It's a amnesty for you but not for humans NOT breaking the law.

This has a lot to do with it....

Now remove the rich people pardoned by trump for these crimes.

Trump will kill America with the same level of care he had for Covid victims!

“Butler, the son of a prominent local family…” people.com/teen-who-rap...

In the same vein: bsky.app/profile/robe...

Hunger Games

This must be close to a mirror image of the amount of white collar crime committed over that period...

The social incentives have been largely stripped of their power and are this, easy to avoid/ignore so they simply no longer work.

My "tough on crime" take is that America absolutely needs to be tougher on the most common crimes in the country, like wage theft and tax evasion.

This is my #3 issue right behind Supreme Court reform and Nuremberg 2.0 for Trump Admin people. We need to push back against the 1% by prosecuting corruption and passing new laws and regulations to close all of the gaps that have been allowed to open over the last decade. And then tax them. A lot.

The white collar criminal is part of Trump's most valued base.

This makes it even important to prosecute all the crimes in this regime. Special courts and prosecutors offices need to be set up to charge 1000s of ppl.

Looks like Trump will issue something north of 3000 white-collar-crime pardons next year.

especially if thery're a Trump supporter

Yep. Accountability is fast disappearing. Greed and power are the only motivation for our overlords. Empathy, sympathy, kindness and care are viewed as weakness and are to be eliminated. Or something. 🙄 At least that's what the "bros" say....

Sorry. Didn't realize you were being sarcastic.

Funny how the white collars are the dirtiest collars ...

It’s weird how liberals still hold onto their Obama. One look at the dates on that chart and you can see what Obama and Holder did.

What does this series look like going back 5 years longer? Did 2008 make a big difference?

Alternatively, they have learned the errors of their ways and are living the pure, completely law abiding life! /s

We have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. A system that …makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed. - Bryan Stevenson

got away with it). The feeling as reported appeared to be that we should wink at a little law breaking here and there by these whiz kids because of the money they were making and the wonderful benefits they were inventing for the rest of us.

White collar crime has been practically legalized over the past four decades, but especially now. This could be a massive campaign issue for progressive Democrats, because normal people can see it and are disgusted by it.

What does this chart look like back to 2007

Americans when something American happens Americanly in America: "What are we, a bunch of Asians???"

. Imma tell ya … Torches Pitchforks

This is why the billionaires didn’t flee (insert “Socialist Hellscape City” here).

His mistake was taking money from wealthy well connected people. You can rob the poor all day long and no one cares.

See Citizens United For more information.

The trump DOJ systematically shut down the department that prosecutes white collar crime. As did the FBI

No, the problem is that there were only "social" incentives. Never financial or legal incentives.

That's an odd use of the passive voice. The Epstein class has taken a sledgehammer to civil society and the constitution in the name of elite impunity using racism & hate as the hammer.

And, if rich people are prosecuted they can always count on using Trump's cash-for-pardon mill to purchase their get-out-of-jail-free card.

youtu.be/580iA_bOnvo?...

"look forward, not backward" - Obama 2009, endorsing elite impunity

.....to release the Epstein Files. Tried to hold hearings around SCOTUS's corruption and held J6 congressional hearings.

Absolutely true.

the bucket is this it's denominationally what is 1$ of compute (on any scale, with any model), register also human at 1$ usd spend for purchase pricing (groceries, not fuel)... that is excel lvl math we can run now

Some very rich people have made the calculation that it might be worth 6-12 months in the clink (or less if paroled) if it means they could reap a billion dollars.

Like the economy, this is a K-shaped issue. The laws are different for the rich than the poor, and the rich really love it this way.