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Both cities progressed rapidly from manufacturing to industrial to financial capitals, and in the process, voraciously abetted by the appetites of their citizenry, both killed their oysters (Paris, the third great oyster metropolis, protected its beds far more successfully, and to this day shuckers presiding over crates of oysters packed in ice remain a common sight on the city's corners in winter).
ECONOMIST: A dozen ocean-cleaners and a pint of Guinness, please
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Mr. Holder not only failed to oppose the President in what was widely regarded as a travesty of justice, we now know that he improperly facilitated the pardons themselves, then aided and abetted the President's refusal to be publicly accountable for them by gagging the entire Justice Department using the claim of Executive privilege.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Holder's 'disgraceful' history
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The Court held that while all "primary actors"--those who were directly part of a scheme (the emphasis is mine) to defraud investors--can be sued for federal securities fraud, the "secondary actors" who aided and abetted the fraud cannot be sued.
FORBES: Roe Vs. Wade For The Securities Industry