{"id":2952,"date":"2008-04-10T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/multimedia\/justice-department-avoiding-corporate-prosecutions\/2952\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T18:56:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T18:56:39","slug":"justice-department-avoiding-corporate-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/multimedia\/justice-department-avoiding-corporate-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department And Corporate Prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\">Democracy Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than fifty companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years. The decline in prosecutions is seen as a deliberate and dramatic shift in policy. While the news reported in a front-page article in the New York Times surprised many, the Justice Department\u2019s use of so called \u201cdeferred prosecution agreements\u201d is nothing new. Back in 2005, a report released by the Corporate Crime Reporter profiled dozens of these cases and warned against their use. We speak with Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/play.rbn.com\/?url=demnow\/demnow\/demand\/2008\/april\/video\/dnB20080410a.rm&amp;proto=rtsp&amp;start=45:08\" class=\"real_video\"><font color=\"#990000\">Real Video Stream<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/play.rbn.com\/?url=demnow\/demnow\/demand\/2008\/april\/audio\/dn20080410.ra&amp;proto=rtsp&amp;start=45:08\" class=\"real_audio\"><font color=\"#990000\">Real Audio Stream<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.switchpod.com\/users\/democracynow\/ftp\/dn2008-0410-1.mp3\" class=\"mp3_download\"><font color=\"#990000\">MP3 Download<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is the Justice Department increasingly avoiding corporate prosecutions? In a front-page article yesterday, the New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than fifty companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years. The decline in prosecutions is seen as a deliberate and dramatic shift in policy. While the news reported in a front-page article in the New York Times surprised many, the Justice Department\u2019s use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8,1616],"tags":[49,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-multimedia","8":"category-usa-news","9":"tag-usa-news","10":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}