The problem is that much white collar crime is not nearly so
straightforward. Many instances of alleged extortion, fraud, and
similar offenses are difficult to distinguish from conduct that
involves “merely aggressive” business, litigation, or political
behavior. In such cases, it may seem that: what is alleged to be
extortion was nothing more than “hardball negotiating”; what
prosecutors call obstruction of justice was actually just “zealous
advocacy”; what an indictment refers to as perjury was really just
“wiliness” on the witness stand; what is alleged to be fraud was