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

Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark. Much like common street grifters, who bank on the victim’s feelings of shame and guilt preventing him from going to the police, Wall Street criminals bank on the terminal intellectual insecurity of their regulators. They dare prosecutors to call what they’ve done crimes, knowing they’ll be hesitant to disagree with the hotshot defense lawyers from New York and Washington who make forty or fifty times what they do.