The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

Eventually, the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section would be entirely deemphasized in favor of a shiny new Obama-created institution called the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was created around the same time that McInerney was hired. Morale at the Justice Department plummeted after that, thanks to a series of strange decisions. For one thing, Holder decided not to retry Stevens, continuing a pattern of backing off big cases after setbacks.