NYT: Getting Away With It. Why America’s top prosecutors no longer go after corporations or their execs

NYT: Getting Away With It. Why America’s top prosecutors no longer go after corporations or their execs

Book Review by James Kwak July 5th, 2017 THE CHICKENSHIT CLUB Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives By Jesse Eisinger  377 pp. Simon & Schuster. $28. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT book review. On April 27, 2010, Senator Carl Levin summoned the Goldman Sachs C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein and his lieutenants before the […]

NYT: Comey Letter on Clinton Email Is Subject of Justice Dept. Inquiry

NYT: Comey Letter on Clinton Email Is Subject of Justice Dept. Inquiry

By ADAM GOLDMAN, ERIC LICHTBLAU and MATT APUZZO JAN. 12, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s inspector general said Thursday that he would open a broad investigation into how the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, handled the case over Hillary Clinton’s emails, including his decision to discuss it at a news conference and to disclose […]

CBS News: John Podesta hits FBI over Russian hacking

CBS News: John Podesta hits FBI over Russian hacking

By REENA FLORES CBS NEWS December 16, 2016, 9:35 AM  John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair who was the target of a massive cyberattack of his personal emails earlier this year, blasted the “broken” FBI Friday over how the agency has handled Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential election. In a blistering Washington Post op-ed published late Thursday, Podesta […]

LAT: FBI clears Clinton after round-the-clock review of new emails, Comey says

LAT: FBI clears Clinton after round-the-clock review of new emails, Comey says

David Lauter and Del Quentin Wilber November 6, 2016 The FBI‘s much-trumpeted new scrutiny of emails related to Hillary Clinton has turned up nothing that would cause the bureau to recommend charges against her, the bureau’s director, James B. Comey, has told Congress. Nine days after rocking the presidential race with word that a new trove of emails had been discovered, Comey […]