Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 6:25 a.m.

A Special Break for Corporate Criminals

by Jim Hightower

If you got caught robbing a bank, chances are excellent that you'd be facing some serious time in the pokey. But what if a bank robs you?

Corporate executives and their lawyers like to claim that a corporation is a "person" with all of the rights of an actual human being. Yet when one of these outfits goes bad and gets caught violating laws, then the lawyers drop the pretense of personhood, insisting that while this entity might be fined, it can't be put in jail or given a de ...

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