Houston Chronicle: Justice’s deals draw scrutiny

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The research of two Houston lawyers is at the center of a growing controversy over the way the Justice Department lets corporations accused of wrongdoing off the criminal hook.

Larry Finder, a former Houston U.S. Attorney in private practice, and Ryan McConnell, a federal prosecutor here, started tracking and writing about the trends a few years ago.

Now their work is oft-cited as legislators, professors and others take aim at how the Justice Department is striking a growing number of deals with companies.

Though there has been mounting concern about the increased use of agreements to help bad-acting corporations avoid business-crushing criminal trials, scrutiny heightened recently with revelations of prosecutors passing lucrative monitoring jobs to former colleagues.

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