The feds are criminally prosecuting big tobacco companies for smuggling cigarettes into Canada. Prescription drugs may cause 100,000 deaths a year. Two Fox-TV reporters in Florida are fired for trying to report on adverse health effects associated with genetically engineered foods. Coal companies continue to cheat on air quality tests as hundreds of coal miners continue to die each year from black lung disease. Robert Reich says that megamergers threaten democracy.
Corporate crime explodes, but the academic study of corporate crime vanishes.
Three hundred trade unionists around the world were killed in 1997 for defending their rights. Corporate firms lobbying to cripple the Superfund law outnumber environmental groups seeking to defend it by 30 to one. Chinese political prisoners allegedly make Adidas products. Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois is a corporate criminal. Chemical companies are testing pesticides on human beings.