prosecution
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On the sacred.
Money isn’t sacred. A person’s reputation is.
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On telepathy and the battle for narrative control.
After William Burroughs experienced how pitifully he could be held in thrall by a small molecule, he developed a lifelong interest in telepathy and mind control. His own brain had been upended. Suddenly, he found himself devoting the vast majority of his time and money toward a single cause: obtaining a day’s ration of opiate. …
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On prosecution.
Prosecutors can wield their tough reputations to push problems elsewhere … but that’s not the same as fixing them.
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On the mortgage crisis and buffoonish, unethical prosecution.
…of course, despite the title of this post, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office called the jury’s verdict exonerating Abacus bank “disappointing.” But that’s getting ahead of the story. One of the most disheartening things you’ll learn if you read Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia is that, of all the gigantic banks that perpetrated fraud before, during,…
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