"In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every……" — Jed S. Rakoff
"In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial."
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Jed S. Rakoff
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16 Quotes by Jed S. Rakoff
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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime,…
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Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the…
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I have a past of making a fool of myself.
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One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.
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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time,…
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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil…
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Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have…
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Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such…
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Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but…
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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system…
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An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If…
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If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm…
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
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Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and…
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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