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

There would come a time when the Lehman creditors would be able to see the contours of the whole heist. They would have documents, emails, admissions even. But almost precisely at that moment of evidentiary victory, they were politically and legally checkmated. The creditors were thrust face-first into the immovable principle that underlies everything modern that Wall Street does: if a crime is complicated enough, and sanctified by enough “reputable” attorneys and accountants, then American law enforcement will inevitably be too slow or too weak to stop it.