Volkswagen's emissions scandal is one example of the Obama administration's failure to go after corporate criminals

Just a couple of weeks before the end of the Obama administration, the Justice Department has begun to come around on the importance of holding individual executives accountable for corporate crimes. But the current prosecution of the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal brings into focus how easy it would have been to proceed this way for the last eight years, especially in the cases of financial institutions involved in the 2008 crisis and its aftermath. Over the weekend, the FBIarrested Oliver...