Is corporate crime really crime?

Acting on a tip from Citizen Works, I put the following letter
into the Snail-Mail/FAX Generator.
( http://music.columbia.edu/~chris/poli )

If you're in the system, print it and FAX/send it. If you're not, email
me your address and the names of your Congressional Rep and Senators, and
I'll put you in.

The letter (which will be addressed to Senators and Representatives):

I urge you to support all future efforts to have the FBI track corporate
crime .

A few weeks ago, the FBI released its annual "Crime in the United States"
report, a compendium of crime statistics that focuses only on street
crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and burglary while entirely
ignoring the growing epidemic of corporate crime.

Corporate crime, probably even more than street crime, threatens to
tear the stability of our economy and the security of millions of
Americans apart. In the wake of the recent tsunami of corporate crime,
fraud and abuse, the absence of an annual corporate crime report seems
especially conspicuous.

A pending Senate appropriations bill (S. 1585) includes some language on
"corporate crime reporting" in its section on the FBI.

I urge you to support this and all future efforts to officially
recognize and penalize corporate crime, and those behind it who would
cheat working Americans out of their hard-earned pay, pensions, benefits
and tax dollars.