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

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The federal government never really stepped up to the plate. The job was left to the states, and even they could come up with only one target. That target, it turned out, was Abacus Federal Savings Bank. There were a million ironies in the choice of this particular institution, but one of the most striking was that the case grew out of an incident that the bank itself had reported to the authorities.

— Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple

Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 45)