The U.S. Justice System Must Focus on Elite Criminality

Two very important articles published in recent days serve to once again highlight America's metastasizing elite criminality problem. A problem which our justice system simply refuses to address. This corrupt two-tier justice system is something I've been focused on from the very beginning of my writings, and I continue to see it as a civilization-level threat for this country if not aggressively addressed and confronted in the very near future.
The two articles in question focus on different aspects of untouchable elite culture in America. The first relates to the continued fraud pervasive in America's largest financial institution, while the second covers a thirty year history of predatory sexual behavior by one of Hollywood's biggest moguls, Harvey Weinstein. In both cases, countless people have known and reported on repeated abuses perpetrated by both the institution and the man, yet the U.S. justice system and the vast majority of "elite" culture happily help shield them from justice. Predators are predators, and elite predators are far more dangerous to society that your average street crook, so why does our justice situation deal with it in the exact opposite way?
Let's start with the blockbuster article published in The Nation by the always informative David Dayen. The article is titled, How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages!
Here's just brief excerpt:
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