Tue 21 Jul 2009
The Department of Justice, Corporations, Buying the Law
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to “one count of engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist” and would be paying a $25 million fine, observers were astonished at the lightness of the sentence. (more…)