This has been “normal” and “acceptable” for decades. There is a leak that followed by a few articles or there is an investigation then followed by s fine... And it goes on and on. US: $2tn of possibly corrupt financial activity JP Morgan Chase laundering more money
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51