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Trump Upends Prosecution of White-Collar Crime
Trump Upends Prosecution of White-Collar Crime
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2026/01/05/trump-upends-prosecution-of-white-collar-crime/
“President Trump’s first year back in office turned the world of white-collar enforcement upside down,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Justice Department, focused on White House priorities such as immigration enforcement and violent crime, has stepped back from the kinds of complicated investigations into foreign bribery, money laundering and public corruption that former department leaders often cited among their greatest successes.”
“Along with that shift, administration officials have undone a number of notable Biden-era white-collar prosecutions. In some, the department dropped charges against executives that were pending. In others, Trump has used the pardon power to forgive a string of top company officials charged with or convicted of crimes related to their businesses.”
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The white collar criminals knew they'd be free to do whatever if they could just get their fellow crook into the White House where he would also have pardons for sale. Of course they couldn't discuss it openly so there had to be some other "public" reasons to elect him: "cost of eggs" and "affordability" and "America first" and "no more wars" and ...
