(Not) Prosecuting Financial Crimes
Holding companies accountable for crimes is essential, yet more must be done to end “too big to jail” concerns.
Brandon L. Garrett is the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the author of Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations. This essay is based on remarks that Professor Garrett delivered on the panel, Agency Enforcement and Evidence of Capture, which the Administrative Conference of the United States convened this spring.
Holding companies accountable for crimes is essential, yet more must be done to end “too big to jail” concerns.