You Can Get Away with Murder, but You Can't Lie to Rich People
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 00:00
By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed
Earlier today in Charleston, West Virginia, a jury heard four hours of closing statements from federal prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Don Blankenship criminal trial.
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Why is the former CEO of one of the largest coal companies in the country facing 30 years in prison?
Not because he might be responsible for the deaths of 29 miners, not because he apparently micromanaged the cover-up of nearly 600 safety violations at the Upper Big Branch mine.
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Stop and think about that, 29 people died under Blankenship's watch and management.
And he's facing charges for misleading regulators and wealthy investors.
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33697-you-can-get-away-with-murder-but-you-can-t-lie-to-rich-people
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Some links may be bad, but the story still stands:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5333644
for charges related to those deaths rather than defrauding investors and violating regulations.
The peanut butter CEO knowingly shipped peanut butter that could and did cause people to die.
Call it what you like but the term murder doesn't seem so melodramatic in light of the direct results of the actions of these CEOs. At the very least the term "negligent homicide" seems applicable.
The usual distinction from voluntary manslaughter is that involuntary manslaughter (sometimes called "criminally negligent homicide"is a crime in which the victim's death is unintended.
Involuntary Manslaughter Overview - FindLaw
How on earth does that happen? WTF?? 
Pretty Boy Floyd
If you'll gather 'round me, children,
A story I will tell
'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw,
Oklahoma knew him well.
It was in the town of Shawnee,
A Saturday afternoon,
His wife beside him in his wagon
As into town they rode.
There a deputy sheriff approached him
In a manner rather rude,
Vulgar words of anger,
An' his wife she overheard.
Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain,
And the deputy grabbed his gun;
In the fight that followed
He laid that deputy down.
Then he took to the trees and timber
Along the river shore,
Hiding on the river bottom
And he never come back no more.
Yes, he took to the trees and timber
To live a life of shame;
Every crime in Oklahoma
Was added to his name.
But a many a starvin' farmer
The same old story told
How the outlaw paid their mortgage
And saved their little homes.
Others tell you 'bout a stranger
That come to beg a meal,
Underneath his napkin
Left a thousand-dollar bill.
It was in Oklahoma City,
It was on a Christmas Day,
There was a whole car load of groceries
Come with a note to say:
"Well, you say that I'm an outlaw,
You say that I'm a thief.
Here's a Christmas dinner
For the families on relief."
Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won't never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.
-- Woody Guthrie
Tim Geithner used America's homeowners to ''foam the runway'' for the bankster landing.
Neil Barofsky, the former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, has published a new book, “Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street.” It presents a damning indictment of the Obama administration’s execution of the TARP program generally, and of HAMP in particular.
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By delaying millions of foreclosures, HAMP gave bailed-out banks more time to absorb housing-related losses while other parts of Obama’s bailout plan repaired holes in the banks’ balance sheets. According to Barofsky, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner even had a term for it. HAMP borrowers would “foam the runway” for the distressed banks looking for a safe landing. It is nice to know what Geithner really thinks of those Americans who were busy losing their homes in hard times.
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/video-geithner-sacrificed-homeowners-to-foam-the-runway-for-the-banks/article/2502982
"Too complicated" to prosecute? No. Call William K. Black.
