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by s73v3r_ 2855 days ago
Read The Chickenshit Club. Basically, after Enron and Arthur Anderson, Congress and the Courts worked to neuter the ability of the SEC and the DoJ to really punish these guys. Combine that with people in those offices not wanting to go too hard, lest they not be able to get jobs with the very law firms they're going against after, and you have a recipe for government not really caring about what business is doing.