It’s not often that corporate executives are forced to take the perp walk, but does a misdemeanor charge bring justice to the 29 killed in the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine?
Fracking pioneer Aubrey McClendon, who crashed his car the day after he was indicted by a grand jury, epitomized the oil and gas industry’s destructive nature.
The top 100 federal contractors have racked up more than $20 billion in fines, penalties, and restitution in hundreds of instances of fraud and other kinds of misbehavior since 1995.