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Later that year, he tested positive for a banned substance and was lucky to get away with a light sentence.

The victims' families had previously called for a change in homicide law, with Mr Webber's mother Emma saying "murderers will get away with murder".

At the time, the BBC chair Samir Shah said there "continues to be a sense that powerful people 'get away with it'."

According to the Denver Post, the complaint about the agreements is independent of the merger.“But the fact that the company entered into such agreements and thought they could get away with it, underscores why competition matters, to consumers, to workers, to farmers and to our communities,” Weiser said.

That's a sign of Trump's utter recklessness and the callousness of those around him, but it's a sign of our democracy’s weakness, as it's currently constituted, that he could very well get away with it.