As social media erupted, demanding his prosecution, industry players swiftly dropped a star who had been garlanded with multiple "porn Oscar" awards.
The goal of the Justice Department's effort, part of a crackdown announced last October, is to fight the medical marijuana industry, estimated at $1.7 billion annually, without confronting it head-on with costly and potentially embarrassing criminal prosecutions, industry sources and legal experts said.
All girls and women have the right to protection, and drawing the line at 18 only makes prosecution of sex industry distributors and consumers much more difficult.
Retaining Bob Knight, the abusive basketball coach at Indiana University, with a slap on the wrist (editorial, May 16) for infractions that would result in dismissal, not to mention criminal prosecution, in any industry but sports sends the message that winning is valued above rules, civil behavior and common decency.
WASHINGTON - Rick Santorum on Sunday defended his assertion that "the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families," arguing on CNN's "State of the Union" that the department's insufficient prosecution of the industry proves his point.
The Willamette Week cites an email chain between Jenn Gaddis, the chief prosecutor in the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries' administrative prosecution unit, and the Kleins' attorneys Hebert Grey, Tyler Smith and Anna Harmon about ways the couple might satisfy their obligation.
In the corporate world, the likelihood that an executive would face criminal prosecution depends on the industry and the shifting interests of prosecutors.
Stepped up federal prosecution of the porn industry (see: "Follow The Money").
It's tragic that the firearms industry — rendered immune to prosecution for the profligate sales of its ever more deadly wares — has made essentially paramilitary weapons available to the general public, effectively shrinking civilian space.
Lehr and its top executives are scheduled to go on trial Oct. 9. Lehr executives were also at the center of a wide-ranging prosecution of corruption in the construction industry 14 years ago.
