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Trump’s Shift on Prosecutions Is Hitting an Unlikely Target
April 17, 2026
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Jonathan Ernst/ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House might have made life easier for fraudsters and financial criminals, but spare a thought for the poor attorneys who might otherwise have represented them in court. “You wanna hear the biggest lie people here are going to tell you?” one lawyer told the American Bar Association’s annual white collar defense conference earlier in March, according to the Financial Times.
“It’s that they’re busy.”That’s because the second Trump administration has pursued fewer prosecutions for white-collar crimes over the past year than in any other since at least 1986, the FT reported Friday.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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