Law enforcement is increasingly becoming a for-profit phenomenon, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t happy about it. The Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform released a report Wednesday saying American companies are being pressured to settle state and federal allegations of misconduct by paying enormous amounts of money—money that law enforcement then diverts to its own “slush funds.”
The “Enforcement Slush Funds” report claims the use of public settlement money by federal and state prosecutors absent legislative approval “is threatening core constitutional, legal and ethical norms that undergird our legal system.”
