Eric Holder To Stay In Obama Administration Beyond First Term: Report
Monday, November 19, 2012
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"There hasn't been any serious investigation of any of the large financial entities by the Justice Department, which includes the FBI," says William Black, an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who, as a government regulator in the 1980s, helped clean up the S&L mess. Black, who is a Democrat, notes that the feds dealt with the S&L crisis with harsh justice, bringing more than a thousand prosecutions, and securing a 90 percent conviction rate. The difference between the government's response to the two crises, Black says, is a matter of will, and priorities.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/why-can-t-obama-bring-wall-street-to-justice.html
"Zero Accountability": Obama’s Refusal to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes - http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/5/zero_accountability_glenn_greenwald_on_obamas
Journalists James Steele and Don Barlett, the twice Pulitzer Prize-winning team who wrote America: What Went Wrong?, and The Betrayal of the American Dream, talk about the media’s failure to hold Wall Street or politicians accountable for financial crimes and mismanagement - http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/8/1/part_2_barlett_and_steele_on_media_govt_failure_to_hold_wall_st_accountable_for_financial_crimes
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