NADER DEMANDS FBI INCLUDE CORPORATE OFFENSES IN CRIME STATS
http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/ashcroft-letter.php
RALPH NADER HAS called on Attorney General John Ashcroft to include
statistics on corporate crime in the FBI's annual "Crime in America
Report," an annual compendium of crime statistics that focuses only on
street crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and burglary while
entirely ignoring the growing epidemic of corporate crime.
The letter notes that, "Where the costs [of corporate crime] have been
estimated, the numbers are staggering. Most credible estimates confirm
that, in the aggregate, white-collar and corporate crimes cost the U.S.
hundreds of billions of dollars annually far more than conventional
categories of crime such as burglary and robbery and cause many
http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/ashcroft-letter.php
RALPH NADER HAS called on Attorney General John Ashcroft to include
statistics on corporate crime in the FBI's annual "Crime in America
Report," an annual compendium of crime statistics that focuses only on
street crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and burglary while
entirely ignoring the growing epidemic of corporate crime.
The letter notes that, "Where the costs [of corporate crime] have been
estimated, the numbers are staggering. Most credible estimates confirm
that, in the aggregate, white-collar and corporate crimes cost the U.S.
hundreds of billions of dollars annually far more than conventional
categories of crime such as burglary and robbery and cause many
preventable deaths, injuries, and disease
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