'Allowing corporate crime to go unpursued and unpunished is not an option.' —Public_Citizen
changes to the DOJ's corporate enforcement policies, including ratcheting up penalties for corporate repeat offenders, widening the scope of individuals who can be implicated in corporate investigations, and directing a squad of FBI agents tasked specifically with targeting white-collar crime."
But the administration's push to intensify enforcement has been hampered by a number of factors, including"The top prosecutor vacancies leave offices in the hands of holdovers and career staff, who may be less likely to embrace policy shifts," Public Citizen noted."Polluter-friendly Senate Republicans like Sens. Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis , meanwhile, are blocking the confirmation of Biden's top environmental law enforcement nominees.
"Obstacles or no obstacles," the report added,"the DOJ must zealously pursue its new policies with the resources that it has."by the Revolving Door Project found that the Biden administration"has taken at least 24 opportunities to either prosecute corporate crime or begin writing new regulations to ban heinous corporate practices" but"has missed 48 such opportunities.
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