Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, set out eight years ago to compile and scrutinize every corporate criminal settlement with the federal government since 2001. He”s presented his findings in a new book, “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations,” to be published by Harvard University Press early next month.
As part of the project, Garrett created a searchable public database of 331 federal nonprosecution agreements and corporate deferred prosecution agreements, as well as a still-larger collection of federal corporate plea agreements since 2001. (UVA Law research librarian Jon Ashley contributed to the project.) Garrett plans to update the database as the government strikes more deals.
