Matt Taibbi: The SuperRich in America Have Become 'Untouchables' in America Who Don't Go to Prison — Amy Goodman interviews Matt Taibbi

Well, this book grew out of my experience covering Wall Street. I’ve obviously been doing it since the crash in 2008. And over and over again, I would cover these very complex and often very socially destructive capers committed by white-collar criminals. And the punchline to all of the stories were basically the same: Nobody would get indicted; nobody went to jail. And after a while, I started to become interested specifically in that phenomenon. Why was there no enforcement of any of this? And around the time of the Occupy protest, I decided to write this book, and then I shifted my focus to try to learn a lot more for myself about who does go to jail in this country, because I thought you really can’t make this comparison accurately until you learn about both sides of the equation, because it’s actually much more grotesque to consider the non-enforcement of white-collar criminals when you do consider how incredibly aggressive law enforcement is with regard to everybody else.

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Matt Taibbi: The SuperRich in America Have Become 'Untouchables' in America Who Don't Go to Prison
Amy Goodman interviews Matt Taibbi

Double standard = privilege