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| OpEd: Got justice? |
| By BeyondChron.org |
| Published: 01/29/2009 |
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CALIFORNIA - It’s classic Jean Valjean: An African American homeless man in Shreveport, Louisiana walks into a local bank and proceeds to inform the teller that it’s a robbery. He has a hand hidden under his jacket, as if he has a gun. Though the teller gives him three piles of money, the man only takes a hundred dollar bill. He needs it in order to pay for a stay at a detox center. He says he’s hungry and homeless. Wracked by guilt, the man walks into a police station the next day and gives himself up. For that, Roy Brown is sentenced to 15 long years in jail. Meanwhile, Bernie Madoff, a rich white money manager and former NASDAQ stock exchange chair, still sits in his mansion after allegedly robbing up to $50 billion from investors, including charitable organizations that have now gone under. With high-powered lawyers and a boatload of political connections, Madoff will never need to worry about how much the detox center charges. Christian Milton, the vice president for reinsurance at American International Group, until recently the country’s biggest insurance company and a benefactor of Bush’s bailout for the rich, was given just four years in prison after being found guilty of massive fraud that cost the outfit’s shareholders over $500 million. How many times does 100 go into 500 million? Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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