In Federal Courts, the Worst Rise to the Top
2 hours agoWilliam L. Anderson
A New York City federal jury has spoken, and its message is ominous: federal prosecutors are empowered to criminalize actions for which there is no statutory prohibition. To put it another way, the government has pulled criminal charges out of thin air – and journalists are cheering.
The news media outlets are framing this as a “college basketball corruption case,†but that is a misnomer, to put it mildly, which I will explain later. First, the news as is being reported on the CBS Sports website :
https://mises.org/wire/federal-courts-worst-rise-top
