Nikos Passas

“Either we’re talking about extraordinary incompetence or a concerted effort to hide something,” says Nikos Passas, a criminology professor at Northeastern University who is studying the crash as a specialist on corruption in Greece and is not involved with the investigation instigated by the victims’ families.

Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University and leading expert in corruption and white-collar crime, said Trump’s “unconditional discharge” raises questions about the impartiality of the judicial system. 

Nikos Passas, a criminology and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who specializes in public corruption, said the Snyder case “does create thorny problems for prosecutions of state and local officials” and makes it harder to prosecute cases in which alleged corruption is less direct.

“They are complexly organized and he is not on paper the owner and therefore a judgment against him would not be executable directly against certain properties. Sorting this out is not going to be simple and it’s not going to be quick,” said Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University.

Social Security fraud and identity theft are crimes that can be “a very, very common kind of issue,” according to Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University. From April 1 to Sept. 30, there were more than 270,000 allegations of Social Security fraud, of which more than 167,000 were categorized […]