Procurers comes up in 2 chapters across 2 episodes of The Higherside Chats Free Show, from January 2018 to April 2020.
Ghislaine Maxwell and the Failure to Indict Procurers
Nick Bryant criticizes the Justice Department for failing to indict Ghislaine Maxwell and other known procurers despite public evidence of their involvement. He compares the situation to law enforcement ignoring the associates of a mob boss like John Gotti, suggesting the media is complicit in the lack of justice.
Civil War Profiteering and the Rise of Corporate Power
The American Civil War served as a turning point where corporations amassed massive profits through procurement contracts and used the chaos to corrupt legislators. Abraham Lincoln warned that corporations had been enthroned and that a money power would seek to prolong its reign by aggregating wealth in a few hands. Following the war, legal restrictions were eroded, and courts began granting corporations unprecedented rights and privileges.
