The case came in the same week as a very public ding-dong about the prosecution of corporate crime. The public perception is that the corporate crims get away with it, probably because they have smart lawyers.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Michael Rozenes, has given an other couple of reasons. One was that the corporate watchdogs are more interested in protecting shareholders and creditors than in jailing crooks. The other was that the judge and the lawyers are not the smartest people in the courtroom, rather the corporate crims is.
Very few plead guilty. Greenburg is, so far the only woman.
Greenburg is the other end of the corporate-prosecution injustice. When you have no money left, or no family with money left to pay the high-class lawyers, there is no bargaining power. The easy way out of restitution, civil penalties and plea bargaining is not available.
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