This big, powerful government was sold to us as the only way to stop and prevent this sort of high level skulduggery in high places. Turns out that once you create such an aggregation of raw power as that government is, it attracts, and is eventually composed of, the very scoundrels it was supposed to suppress. Soon they're working both ends of the whipsaw, and the situation is as bad as before, only it costs several times as much now.
Free competition would help to suppress this stuff, but that is not allowed in the current regulatory regime, probably for that very reason. As long as these CEO's are the only game in town, and they have plenty of steak to feed the watchdogs, they have no reason to stop.
Free markets, capitalism, true competition in the marketplace...very little of it left anywhere. At least on major scale- small businesses maybe- that aren’t corporate franchises.