— Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapplethat’s what the new policy was turning out to be: For the small subset of offenders who are guilty of truly systemic, transformative, organized crime, for offenders to whom losing a big case could be politically embarrassing, let’s carefully consider the collateral consequences of criminal prosecution. But for everybody else, let’s ignore them more than ever before.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 52)