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

“I’m not talking about just this case, but in others that we have resolved, the impact on the stability of the financial markets around the world is something that we take into consideration,” Holder began. The room was suddenly very quiet. “We reach out to experts outside of the Justice Department to talk about what are the consequences of actions that we might take,” Holder explained, “[and] what would be the impact of those actions if we wanted to make a particular prosecutive [sic] decision or determination with regard to a particular institution.” The crowd of reporters listened in stunned silence to this speech. “So that,” Holder concluded, “factors into the kinds of decisions that we make.”