New Legislation Would Allow Criminal Penalties Against Corporate Officers Who Hide Information on Dangerous Products

Coalition for Sensible Safeguards news release For Immediate Release: July 15, 2014 Contact: Angela Bradbery, (202) 588-7741, abradbery@citizen.org; or Brian Gumm, (202) 683-4812, bgumm@foreffectivegov.org New Legislation Would Allow Criminal Penalties Against Corporate Officers Who Hide Information on Dangerous Products Sen. Blumenthal’s…

Two Key Corporate Accountability Bills Introduced by Rep. Conyers

News Release For Immediate Release: Friday, April 11, 2014 For More Information Contact: Ralph Nader or Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 Two Key Corporate Accountability Bills Introduced by Rep. Conyers Yesterday, U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) introduced two important corporate accountability measures: (1) the…

After GM Disaster, Nader & Groups Call for Criminal Liability for Hiding Product Dangers

News Release For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 After GM Disaster, Nader & Groups Call for Criminal Liability for Hiding Product Dangers In an effort to prevent deadly product safety disasters – such…

A Reminder: The Rich Don’t Always Win

Sam Pizzigati (editor of the superb website,  TooMuchOnline, which tracks CEO pay and other gross excesses of the super-rich) has a new book out that rebuts the self-justifying claims used by the rich and right-wing elites: The Rich Don’t Always…

Tax (Policy) Time

The call to reform corporate taxes is accelerating. The Senate Finance Committee released a set of policy papers on tax reform today that at least include some ideas we like for discussion and inclusion, such as a carbon tax (more…

Exxon, Dow, and the Koch Brothers: Buying the Bench

A Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Exxon, Dow, the Kochs, the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate groups spent millions of dollars in recent years to send sitting judges to weekend seminars on corporate crime and other topics. Not only were the seminars heavily biased toward…

Civic Censorship: “Corporate Crime”

A new column by Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, points out that U.S. news media have used the term “corporate crime” just 42 times  since the year began. The only instance in which an American outlet used the…