During the last two decades, the United States has witnessed a curious statistical mystery: poverty increases, crime decreases and the prison population doubles. However, not everyone goes through jail. Thanks to a judicial system tailored to the new cult of wealth and power, the vast majority of white-collar criminals have managed to elude prison since the financial crisis began, while the poor and members of ethnic minorities end up in prison. prison almost automatically. Income inequality translates into inequality before the courts when we analyze who is subject to criminal prosecution and who is not. The fraud of the privileged classes takes away 40 percent of the world's wealth, but nobody goes to jail; In the poor neighborhoods of large cities, tens of thousands of people are arrested at the end of the year for the crime of being on the street. This gap is what allows massive and unpunished fraud. Taibbi proposes a trip on both sides of the justice system: on the one hand, cases such as the surprising looting of Lehman Brothers that preceded the financial collapse of 2008, or as the conspiracy of a group of billionaires, managers of high-risk funds, for ruin a rival company. On the other, the raids of immigrants promoted by a welfare system that treats its beneficiaries as thieves.