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Guys, it's fine.

Relax.

It's only a crime if someone else does it or is not sufficiently wealthy, otherwise it's a mistake.

I believe that is referred to as: organised crime.

Rather, this is institutional crime. Organised crime is when crime operates its own control structures in defiance of government enforcement; this is the government actively allowing the crime to proliferate.

Organised crime involves the corruption of institutions too - specifically to allow getting away with it.

But I like your take on it as institutionalised crime because it is now publicly overt.

The corruption is complete.

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