And after a while, I started to become interested specifically in that phenomenon. And the punchline to all of the stories were basically the same: Nobody would get indicted nobody went to jail. And over and over again, I would cover these very complex and often very socially destructive capers committed by white-collar criminals. I’ve obviously been doing it since the crash in 2008. MATT TAIBBI: This book grew out of my experience covering Wall Street.
I interviewed Matt Taibbi with Democracy Now!’s Aaron Maté, and I began by asking Matt to talk about this divide.
The book asks why the vast majority of white-collar criminals have avoided prison since the financial crisis began, while an unequal justice system imprisons the poor and people of color on a mass scale. In Apriltaibbi, journalist Matt Taibbi joined us on Democracy Now! to talk about his new book, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report_.
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