In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials

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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:39 AMSubject: In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace TrialsTo: letters@nytimes.com

To the Editor: When news of the crimes at Enron broke, we waited to see if this was the anomaly, or merely the first of a pattern of corporate crime. Now we learn that the extent of corporate malfeasance has been deliberately masked by our own Department of Justice. In keeping with this administration's fetish for secrecy, the public was shielded from the results of our own public investigations and investors were blinded to the actual behavior of companies we were funding. It is overdue that our Department of Justice got back to enforcing the laws duly passed by congress. Instead, it has enriched GOP loyalists as monitors of DPAs, skirted the law, and kept the public in the dark.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549