{"id":109432,"date":"2025-03-14T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/?post_type=news&p=109432"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:55:00","slug":"trump-is-soft-on-corporate-crime","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/trump-is-soft-on-corporate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Soft on Corporate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 President Donald Trump is expected to <\/span>speak<\/span><\/a> this afternoon at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). A Public Citizen <\/span>report<\/span><\/a> documented how his administration is rapidly halting and dismissing federal investigations and cases against alleged corporate lawbreaking. <\/span>Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen<\/b>, released the following statement:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe DOJ helmed by Pam Bondi has clearly shown itself to be the polar opposite of the rule of law. Persecuting perceived enemies, removing personnel that investigated insurrectionists, and undercutting tools to investigate corruption are just a few of the early offenses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPay attention to how Trump talks \u2018tough on crime\u2019 when attacking immigrants and smearing anti-war protestors \u2013 and, at the same time, casts law enforcement against corporate crime and corruption as unfair \u2018weaponization.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s DOJ is already halting enforcement against corporations bribing foreign officials, has dismissed a case against corporate polluters poisoning majority Black communities, citing promises to attack DEI, and dismissed a case alleging illegal discrimination against Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s soft on corporate crime approach means leniency for corporate corruption, consumer rip-offs, pollution, and worker abuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-109432","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tax_topic-antitrust-competition-laws","tax_topic-big-tech","tax_topic-consumer-worker-safeguards","tax_topic-corporate-influence-in-government","tax_topic-making-government-work","tax_topic-regulatory-safeguards","tax_topic-wall-street-reform","tax_case_topic-consumer-protection","tax_case_topic-internet-free-speech-miscellaneous","tax_case_topic-internet-free-speech-right-to-speak-anonymously","tax_case_topic-internet-free-speech-use-of-brand-names-in-domain-names-and-metatags","tax_supertag-corporate-crime-enforcement","tax_supertag-taking-on-trump","tax_news-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump is Soft on Corporate Crime - Public Citizen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/trump-is-soft-on-corporate-crime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump is Soft on Corporate Crime - Public Citizen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 President Donald Trump is expected to speak this afternoon at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). 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