Stealth Bush campaign against workplace safety's "worst actors"
A quiet partnership between OSHA, the EPA and a select group of Justice Department prosecutors has been formed to target for criminal prosecution employers who operate the nation's most dangerous workplaces, reports The New York Times.
No new legislation or regulation is involved, according to the Times. Existing laws that carry stiffer penalties that OSHA rules will be leveraged, including environmental laws, criminal statutes more often used in racketeering and white-collar crimes, and provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a corporate reform law.