Eric Holder's Failure to Prosecute Wall Street in One Graph 26SEP14

A.G. Eric Holder will be missed, not by the American people (the right wing hates him because he is Black and part of the Obama administration's wall street cabal, the left are disgusted with him because he is part of the Obama administration's wall street cabal). Corporate America, the banks and financial industry will miss him because he has been their Stay Out Of Jail free card. Not that they have anything to worry about, Obama will make sure the next A.G. will be as spineless as Holder when it comes to prosecuting those responsible for the 2008 recession, the recession we are still suffering through and paying for. From +AlterNet .....

Eric Holder's Failure to Prosecute Wall Street in One Graph

Is there any reason to think his successor do any better?

September 26, 2014  |  

This week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would be stepping down, which set off speculation about who President Obama would appoint to replace him.
Holder's legacy is being appraised in many areas, from drug policy reform to civil rights to accountability for war crimes by the previous administration.
But one of the Holder's most glaring failures was little-discussed: his Department of Justice's  failure to prosecute financial fraud by Wall Street. From the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, here's a graph showing prosecutions for financial fraud from October 2003 to April 2014 – notice the downward trend that continued under Holder despite the financial crisis and the fraud that accompanied it:

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Under Holder, a long line of Justice Department officials (and those at the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission) have left their jobs in the government to join the finance industry or law firms that specialize in defending it. This poses a pair of questions for the Obama administration: Who will replace Eric Holder, and will Holder soon leverage his weak oversight of Wall Street for a much more lucrative job?

Zaid Jilani is the investigative blogger and campaigner for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. He is formerly the senior reporter-blogger for ThinkProgress.

Romney Has Public and Private Morality Upside Down 15MAI12

mitt romney does have morality upside down, here is the problem with his lack of business morality and his obsession with private morality explained by Robert Reich on HuffPost.....
Mitt Romney's reaction to J.P. Morgan Chase's mounting losses from reckless trades is "the market will take care of it." His spokesman says "no taxpayer money was at risk" so we don't need more financial regulation. Romney has even promised to repeal Dodd-Frank if he's elected president.
Yet at the same time, Romney has come out strongly against same-sex marriage. He's also against abortion. He has no problem with government intruding on the most intimate of decisions a person makes.
He's got private and public morality upside down. He doesn't want to regulate where regulation is necessary -- at the highest reaches of the economy, where public immorality has cost us dearly, and will cost even more unless boardroom behavior is constrained. Yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate -- at the level of the individual, in bedrooms and other intimate spaces, where private morality should govern.
This is a dangerous confusion. It should be a matter of personal choice whom to marry and when to have children. But it is undoubtedly a matter of public choice whether big banks should be allowed to take the kind of risky bets that plunged the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, and whether people with great wealth and should be able to buy our democracy with huge campaign contributions.
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