For over a year, The Captured Project has asked incarcerated people to create portraits of various people. The only criterion is that these inmates choose people they believe should be in prison, as they themselves are. The website of The Captured Project shows various portraits of CEO luminaries, none of whom have paid for any crimes committed against the general public. Here’s an example:
The cropped painting below is of Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup. It was painted by Garrett Rushing—an inmate serving 17 years for drug trafficking with a firearm (500 grams of meth). What did CEO Michael Corbat do to receive this portrait honor?
Oversees a company engaged in:
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Conspiracy
Worked with other banks to fix foreign currency rates
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Economic destruction
Misled government into insuring thousands of risky home loans and deceived investors by concealing the extent of its exposure to toxic subprime debt, ultimately destroying the housing market
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Fraud
Committed one the world’s largest accounting scandals by hiding Enron’s debt, deceiving investors out of millions
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Illegal credit card practices
Charged customers for products during free trial periods, signed customers up for credit card add-ons without specific authorization, and enrolled and charged customers for services they were ineligible for
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Theft
Stole over $14 million from customers by “sweeping” positive balances from their clients’ credit card accounts into their general fund
Pretty damning charges. i’m sure President Obama and the DOJ and the Republican candidates are all over this. Surprisingly, they are not and, according to this website, you can purchase a $40 book of all of these portraits, the proceeds of which go to Bernie Sanders’ campaign.