I don't know the names of the men who poisoned & killed my father & my brother, but I know where they worked and why they did it. Odds are these killers will never see the inside of a jail cell. If you live in New York State and lie to that government about your income to reduce your taxes, you go to prison. If you're criminally convicted of 17 counts of such lies — such tax fraud — you could spend a long time in prison.

But The Trump Organization, a New York corporation that was just convicted of 17 criminal counts of tax fraud, not only won't "go to jail" but also won't even be dissolved for its crimes.

Instead, it'll pay a maximum $1.6 million fine that represents less money than just one of Trump's several-criminally-implicated employees and relatives made off with by the company committing their fraud for the past 15 years.

When the senior executives of California's private for-profit power utility PG&E made the very intentional decision to move cash into their own pockets through bonuses and dividends instead of making their power lines resilient enough to withstand severe winds, they also made the decision to let people die.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "How To Kill and Get Away With It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Coal and tobacco industries kill more Americans each year than they employ" by February 24, 2019.

Article: "Sunday Excerpt: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back"" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How White-Collar Criminals Get Away With It" by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein.

Tweet: "According to the FBI's trend study there were an estimated 22,900 murders in the US in 2021 (+/- ~1,600) compared to 22,000 murders in 2020 (+/- 1,000). So murder was up about 4% with a margin of error between -7% and +17%. Good luck with that." by Jeff Asher.

Article: "Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud" by Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle.

Article: "Durbin, Blumenthal, Scanlon Introduce Corporate Crime Database Act" by Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Mary Gay Scanlon.

Article: "Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Delivers Remarks on Corporate Criminal Enforcement" by Lisa O. Monaco.

Article: "Trial starts for Cheney man accused of poisoning wife's ice cream".

Article: "Johnson & Johnson tests a legal maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step" by Stacey Vanek Smith, Adrian Ma.

Article: "California Utility Found Guilty of Violations in 2010 Gas Explosion That Killed 8" by Thomas Fuller.

Article: "PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter in Camp Fire Case" by Ivan Penn and Peter Eavis.

Article: "Ex-Nevada Doctor Pleads Guilty To Fatally Poisoning Wife With Antifreeze In 2015" by Dorian Geiger.

Article: "Inside The Tobacco Deal: Nicotine and Tobacco: April 14, 1994 Testimony".

Article: "Public Support for Getting Tough on Corporate Crime: Racial and Political Divides" by James D. Unnever, Michael L. Benson, Francis T. Cullen.

Article: "Family claims man accused of poisoning wife used insurance money to live lavish lifestyle" by Ken Lemon.

Article: "Wayne County man allegedly tried to poison and kill his wife".

Article: "Tay–Sachs disease" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sickle cell disease" by Wikipedia.

Article: "PG&E's equipment killed 117 people in the last decade" by ABC10.

Article: "WNBA star Brittney Griner released from Russian detention in prisoner swap for convicted arms dealer" by Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Jeremy Herb, MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Right-wing host melts down after 'entitled' Britney Griner is released instead of Jan. 6 rioters" by David Edwards.

Article: "Moment ex-Mrs Florida Karyn Turk, 47, is released from federal prison after serving one-month sentence for stealing her dying mother's social security checks" by Snejana Farberov.

Article: "Something I found on Facebook. Just a reminder" by SmallTownHick (list of trump misdeeds).

Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.

Site: American Lung Association.

Article: "Frederick Ludwig Hoffman" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Dow Chemical Co. v. United States".

Law: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation".

Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).

Article: "John Marshall" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Quote: "Corporations, which should be the carefully constrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." - Grover Cleveland.

Article: "Grover Cleveland" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.

Article: "Paul Whelan, Imprisoned in Russia Since 2018, Is 'Disappointed' in U.S. Efforts to Secure His Release" by Kimberlee Speakman.

Article: "Oliver North" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Signs Bill Allowing Big Coal to Pollute Streams" by NRDC.

Article: ""Russia Is Losing the War": Russian Marxist Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine & What Comes After Putin" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Wagner Group" by Wikipedia.

Article: "5 facts about the Soviet involvement in the Spanish Civil War that you (probably) didn't know" by Boris Egorov.

Article: "Ethics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Morality" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Election (1999 film)".

Article: "Why was Trump so quiet after the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger?" by Eugene Scott.

Article: "2012 Benghazi attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Housing Choice Voucher Program Section 8" by HUD.

Article: "Jay Gould" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stephen Johnson Field" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like" - Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow.

Article: "Top 10 American Companies that Aided the Nazis" by Dustin Koski.

Hour Two: Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine, Phil Ittner, on the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine

Article: "Ukraine hails air defences after heavy Russian missile strikes" by Reuters.

Article: "Ukraine drone attack hits 2 military bases deep inside Russia" by Patrick Reevell.

Article: "Kit and morale may prove decisive as Ukraine war enters winter phase" by Dan Sabbagh.

Article: "Is It Time to Revive the Berlin Airlift for Ukraine?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ukraine faces 'significant' power shortages after Russian attacks" by Pavel Polityuk.

Article: "Donors race to get generators, other aid to hard-hit Ukraine" by Jamey Keaten.

Article: "December 5, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news" by Jack Guy, Eliza Mackintosh and Tara Subramaniam.

Article: "December 6, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news" by Kathleen Magramo, Jack Guy and Adrienne Vogt.

Article: "December 7, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news" by Kathleen Magramo, Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Amy Woodyatt and Maureen Chowdhury.

Article: "December 8, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news" by Kathleen Magramo, Sana Noor Haq, Eliza Mackintosh, Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Maureen Chowdhury and Elise Hammond.

Article: "Advocates for Mentally Ill New Yorkers Ask Court to Halt Removal Plan" by Andy Newman.

Article: "Democrats ramp up investigation of Kushner family business dealings" by Michael Kranish.

Article: "Senate Committee on Finance Membership".

Article: "1903-The First Flight" by NPS.

Article: "The First Person on the Moon" (1969) by NASA.

Article: "Production of forever chemicals emits potent greenhouse gases, analysis finds" by Tom Perkins.

Article: "The rumored reason why AOC is facing a House ethics probe" by Brigid Kennedy.

Article: "I'm an N.Y.C. Paramedic. I've Never Witnessed a Mental Health Crisis Like This One." by Anthony Almojera.

Article: "Watch: AOC chastises GOP lawmaker after he addresses witness as 'boo' and 'young lady'" by CNN.

Article: "List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Are Kids Getting Too Many Vaccines?" by Paul A. Offit.

Hour Three: How Oregon plans to deal with gun laws and forces arrayed against us
- John Hummel Deschutes County District Attorney and Measure 114 Committee Member

Article: "Oregon Measure 114, now temporarily on hold, sparks two court rulings on one day" by Maxine Bernstein.

Article: "Read the full text of Measure 114" by Yes on 114.

Article: "Oregon Measure 114 Frequently Asked Questions" by Yes on 114.

Site: Lift Every Voice Oregon.

Article: "Charleston Loophole " by James E. Clyburn.

Article: "Judges Uphold The Death Sentence For Dylann Roof Who Killed 9 Black Churchgoers" by AP.

Article: "Deschutes County, Oregon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Water rising on Mississippi, barges moving more freely south of Memphis" by John Kingston.

Article: "Yangtze shrinks as China's drought disrupts industry" by AP.

Article: "Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool" by Gregory Barber.

Tweet: "Glad that Brittney Griner is on her way home. We offered the entire Trump family in exchange. Eric was the deal-breaker." by Jack E. Smith.

Article: "AG Garland reiterates 'no person' -- not even Trump -- is above the law over Jan. 6" by Tal Axelrod and Luke Barr.

Article: "Holodomor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine war: Putin endorses evacuations from occupied Kherson" by BBC.

Article: "Police crisis intervention team" (CIT) by Wikipedia.

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