Is the Trump administration ignoring white-collar crime?

It sure look like it

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Will President Trump's Justice Department lay off prosecuting white-collar criminals?

Nothing like that has been formally announced. But Yahoo Finance's Bethany McLean reported this week that, if you put together different statements and pieces of news, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that's what they're planning.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.