{"id":196104,"date":"2008-05-23T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/23\/30-former-officials-became-corporate-monitors-nytimes-com\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T21:51:00","slug":"30-former-officials-became-corporate-monitors-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/23\/30-former-officials-became-corporate-monitors-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Former Officials Became Corporate Monitors &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> have aggressively expanded a program called, &#8220;deferred prosecutions&#8221; where the companies avoid a court case by paying a fine and agreeing to supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it now appears that in addition to helping along one goal of the Bush adminsitration, slaps on the wrist for corporate law breakers, they have gotten a twofer by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/23\/washington\/23justice.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">creating lucrative private contracts for former political allys<\/a>, in the form of &#8220;corporate monitors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that John Ashcroft got a $52,000,000.00 contract to do this, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, Bush and His Evil Minions&#8482; have aggressively expanded a program called, &#8220;deferred prosecutions&#8221; where the companies avoid a court case by paying a fine and agreeing to supervision. Well, it now appears that in addition to helping along one goal of the Bush adminsitration, slaps on the wrist for corporate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}