Now a broadcaster with Russia Today, he gives his take on wrongdoing in banking in a personal film for BBC1's This Week aimed at the "banksters".
Clarkson and Edwards are keen to stay in the game, they say, even as they come to terms with the reality that they will be unable to take on wrongdoing on a large scale, deprived of the attorney general's office as a platform for prosecution.
Morsi will also be wary of taking on the military wrongdoing for fear of drawing attention to allegations of security sector malpractice during his own tenure.
In Michael Mann's brilliant The Insider, based on a real-life 1980s media cover-up, Al Pacino's Lowell Bergman has to practically take on the entire media-industrial complex to expose tobacco-industry wrongdoing on his CBS show 60 Minutes.
However, do not make this about taking the burden onto your shoulders; acknowledge any wrongdoing on your own behalf but don't take on board pacifying their inability to be responsible for themselves.
"There are plenty of victims of boilerplates," Professor Baird said, but wrongdoing is less likely to occur in the mass market than in specialized markets, such as those who take on payday loans or rent to own.
But in this recent JPMorgan Chase lawsuit, he asks, "Have we now turned a corner?" NEW YORK TIMES ECONOMIX Changes Come to a Bank-Friendly Regulator | The new leader of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, is said to be trying to take a tougher stance on wrongdoing, Bloomberg News writes.
Michael is a sociopath with a do-gooder streak: he is known as "three-part Mike" because when he takes on what he views as wrongdoing, he acts as "judge, jury and executioner".
To the contrary, Mr. Levitt said, the enforcement staff during his term "delighted" in taking on high-profile figures if there was evidence of wrongdoing.
Mr. Cameron also took on Mr. Miliband, saying that most of the abuses now under investigation within the Murdoch newspapers took place when Labour was in power and that the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had taken no action on evidence that serious wrongdoing had occurred.
Journalistically, he took on another Kentucky sacred cow, the coal industry; sharpened the editorial page so much that a Republican politician called it "the fang and claw"; and exposed wrongdoing in used-car businesses at the expense of lost advertising.
