Executives Behind Financial Crisis at Little Risk of Jail Time

Most of the other Wall Street bigwigs whose firms took unconscionable risks — risks that nearly brought the global financial system to its knees — aren’t even on Justice’s radar screen. Nor has there been a single indictment against any top executive at a subprime lender. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 25, 2011 - 8:03 PM PST
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Francis Lilly (review), Don Bertschman (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Feb 27, 2011 - 10:58 AM PST
Francis Lilly
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by Francis Lilly - Feb. 27, 2011

An itemized list of the obvious. Does not explain "why" which is documented in the 1995 House Congressional Record, December 6, 1995, pages H04041-H14076. The criminal actions were legislated, legalezed, and the executives were immunized against prosecution in the same legislation. The legislation: The Private Securities Letigation Reform Act of 1995, HR1058/S240 Journalists "will not go there!", they like being employed.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 27, 2011

Nocera addresses a big issue as the corporate run government tries to attack the poor and middle class for the financial mess, but fails to charge the crooked greedy multi-millionaires who created the collapse. The causative factors for the failure of equal justice could be persued much more deeply, but at least nocera is (belatedly) describing the emperor's lack of clothing.

We need publicly financed elections so the prosecutions conducted by administrations are not a function of the size of their political contributions.

Today, Mr. Black says, the government doesn’t have nearly as many resources to pursue such cases. With the F.B.I. understandably focused on terrorism, there isn’t a lot ... More »

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Don Bertschman
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by Don Bertschman - Feb. 28, 2011
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