Changes in public policy could put a lid on executives’ excessive pay packages

Jon Talton

Business Section, Seattle Times

June 26, 2015

 

  Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking

Wall St. Bankrolls Ex-Executive as He Sues Over A.I.G. Bailout

By Ben Protess and Aaron M. Kessler

Here Comes the Judge, in Cuffs

In Broward County, Fla., Spate of Judges in D.U.I. Arrests

By FRANCES ROBLES JUNE 27, 2014

Reporter’s Case Poses Dilemma for Justice Dept

The New York Times, June 28, 2014,

By JONATHAN MAHLER

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has said, “As long as I’m attorney general, no reporter who is doing his job is going to go to jail.

Innocent woman freed after 17 years in prison

  A Los Angeles County judge, calling the case a failure of the criminal-justice system, threw out the murder conviction of 59-year-old Susan Mellen, convicted on testimony of a witness later known for giving false tips to law enforcement in Washington state.

Violent criminal on federal payroll as informant

  Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner.

  Using a law designed to help catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by tracking their cash, the government has gone after run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation that they have committed serious crimes.