Corporate Crime Reporter

When it comes to the Gotham City that is the world of white collar crime, editor Russell Mokhiber might as well be Batman. Since 1987, before Michael Moore and Matt Taibbi started making conversation about Corporate America fashionable, Mokhiber has been reporting on the misdeeds of big business to those who see the big picture and aren’t distracted by the trivia our complicit media feeds us.
Corporate predation is far more costly to our society than violent street crime and creates fertile soil for more of it. 3 – 4 times as many Americans are killed by malpractice, faulty medicines, or by simply trying to make a living due to budget cuts and lowered safety standards. It’s the type of evil that can only be attributed to sheer greed.
White collar criminals get away with everything and give the world nothing. They rig the system to favor them. A drug addict who burglarizes at home gets locked away for years. A high-​finance felon not only never sees life behind bars, he can use his weight to lean on Congress to get the laws changed, tilting the grand pinball machine so that him and his cronies always win.
4 billion dollars vs. at least a trillion: That’s how much America is being fleeced per annum by these Wall Street Kingpins.
Such is Mr. Mokhiber’s crusade; to muckrake the soil that surrounds the ivory towers these treacherous slicksters live in so that they fall to the Earth below and find themselves at the mercy of an angry public. Doing so can help save our democracy from the tyranny of concentrated, privatized power.
One caveat: It’s gigaexpensive to subscribe to the newsletter itself, so I just recommend using the website or Google to follow Mokhiber’s brave work. It’s way more interesting and relevant that watching «Gangland» on The History Channel.
I mean, chances are, The Hells Angels aren’t gonna ride through town and carry off your sister. Corporate criminals, however, can cost her a job, her health, and her life through their unholy, tenacious desire to increase profit margins.