Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Why the GE Capital convictions were quietly overturned, and what it says about justice on Wall Street
The Problem with Justice
… Is that, sometimes, (1) it requires a jury of civilians to understand a variety of arcane and intentionally cryptic accounting processes and laws, and (2) it requires the government to go up against, not some schmuck public defender but legions of highly-paid, highly-trained lawyers who will take any possible flaw in a case and trump it to get things thrown out.
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