This is nothing new - it is the status quo. Governments, controlled by the oligarchs and plutocrats, the dictators and autocrats, multinats and giant corporations, and the military, have long been subverted by special interests.

Giant banks can't be meaningfully sued because they're "too large to fail". Big Sugar in Florida is so powerful that a call to Clinton stopped Gore and other's efforts to save the Everglade, and then with the Everglades experiencing mass die-offs over the past 4 years, they got an extension of their lease despite serious opposition because they control the water commission that makes the decisions. Numerous multinats engage in shady tactics, slave and near-slave labor practices, bald-faced lies in the face of government investigations that exposed the bad things they've done but then get swept under the rug.

The free market is just a fairy tale, just like socialism, communism and any number of other -isms that can't survive in the shadow of human nature without becoming corrupted mutants. Whistle-blowers are often treated as criminals because they expose the truth. Politicians make themselves richer through the connections they create and, in the US, presidents are not only given a lifetime salary, they are also given a Secret Service detail to protect them. It's all a shell game and we are the fools who are too blind to see that there is only one shell...and no ball.