One of the most alarming things about the current regime in the US is the class solidarity at the upper levels of the kleptocracy: no one above a certain economic/political level can be held accountable for any crime because they are part of the same group network as the politicians, prosecutors and judges.
At the upper level, you have a license to steal, as long as you recognize the right of every other member of the upper class to do the same thing.
The federal government, after looting the Social Security trust fund for decades, discovers MF Global engaged in financial wrongdoing.