It should come as no surprise to anyone reading that there’s one law for the rich and another for the poor. For example, under three-strikes laws, you can receive a life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. However, if you commit tens of millions of dollars of securities fraud, you’re out in five on parole.
This is the system that Donald Trump desperately wants to maintain, and he’s perverting the mission of the FBI to do it. In a new report from Reuters, the Trump administration has ordered it to indefinitely deprioritize all white collar crime investigations.
