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Jed S Rakoff

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don’t operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions – and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

It’s very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you’re representing is often a crook.

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Jed S Rakoff

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?

– Jed S Rakoff

Jed S Rakoff

I don’t have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

– Jed S Rakoff

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