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Postcrash Developments
THE CRASH OF 2008 is now over a decade back in our rearview mirror. Much has happened since then. This chapter will survey several postcrash scandals: in particular, Volkswagen, General Motors, Boeing, and the opioid crisis have attracted national attention. Alone, the opioid crisis shows U.S. Attorneys sometimes behaving in a new fashion that stresses individual accountability (and that is a very recent development). This chapter will then turn to a closer examination of the settlement agreements used to resolve allegations of corporate misconduct. Increasingly, defense counsel are disdaining DPAs and instead seeking ...
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