Right? These are just re-treads of the 'rich, powerful, and influential face fewer consequences for misdeeds' that has been a factor of human life since probably forever. Other economic systems have so far not proven themselves immune to this.

I won't go so far as to say that capitalism has more controls to mitigate this effect, since I think there is a fair point to be made that we do need to start checking the power of corporations, and those controls have not so far presented themselves without assuming government intervention.