FBI Warns Sequestration Will Hamper All Their Hard-Hitting Wall Street Investigations

[Pharaoh]

yeah right! really? you guys sure have been hammering Wall street all along


WASHINGTON -- More than four years after the financial crisis, not a single Wall Street executive has been jailed for playing a role in the creation of the toxic financial products that fueled the real-estate bubble, which were in some cases designed simply to fail.

That track record may make it difficult for the Department of Justice to earn the sympathy of the public as it warns that spending cuts will hamper its ability to investigate Wall Street fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigations told lawmakers in a recent letter that across-the-board cuts resulting from sequestration "will cause current financial crimes investigations to slow as workload is spread among a reduced workforce. In some instances, such delays could affect the timely interviews of witnesses and collection of evidence."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/fbi-sequestration-wall-street_n_2807338.html

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Even if the FBI investigates and finds Wall Street criminal activity

the bankers don't have to worry about prosecution.

Of course the FBI will put its resources to good use by going after pot smokers.

[Rex]

2. Oh silly FBI, you think you are in charge!!!

How cute! At least their excuse is just slightly less lame then their actual 'investigations' into their pay masters lives! The JD works for the elite. Not a surprise the FBI will carry the water of the uber-rich. Disappointing, but not a surprise in the least bit.

[L0oniX]

3. LMFAO!

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Seems like they've been anticipating The Sequester for 4+ years

They cut back then to avoid cutting back now. Just like we need to do to steal strengthen Social Security.

That would explain this:

[Downtown Hound]

5. Hi! We're the FBI!

And we have an absolutely GREAT sense of humor!

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. HI! We're the FB.

We can't afford I.

[kenny blankenship]

6. I LOLed

[jsr]

7. Pathetic.

[BainsBane]

8. so no impact whatsoever from the sequester.

[WillyT]

9. ROFLMAO !!! - K & R !!!

What kidders...

[99Forever]

10. Now, that there is funny...

... I don't care who you are!


Besides, President Obama already said they didn't break any laws.

So pipe down, he's got this.

[Dragonfli]

11. All three of their professorial wrist slappers to be laid off!

The Wall St fraud division may even have to give up the broom closet they were given as an office. Damn!!

[winter is coming]

13. Oh, dear. I guess they'll be reduced to applying whitewash by the quart instead of the gallon.

Darn budget cuts.

[onethatcares]

14. Dear Wall Street Fraudsters

We would like to take this moment to inform you we will no longer be looking at anything in your records thanks to a great excuse.

Please feel free to continue.

Cordially,


Whoever the top fbi guy is at this time.

[obxhead]

15. 0-0

is still zero.

FFS.

[jwirr]

16. IMO that seems like a bonus for the rethugs.

[pipoman]

17. Yeah

and that 2% of the thousands of people who phone them to say, "I'm a felon actively trying to buy a gun, and I just signed that I'm not a felon under penalty of perjury on a federal document", who are ever investigated..

[AtheistCrusader]

18. Let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the nothing -- still nothing

-Jane Cobb

[talkingmime]

19. I'm sure the GOP is just CRUSHED over this.

[snappyturtle]

20. What a joke. Maybe the next we'll hear from them is when the statute of limitations runs out. nt

[frylock]

21. man, just when they were prepared to blow the whole case wide open

[Initech]

22. What hard hitting Wall St. investigations?

[Jim Lane]

23. Sometimes, you see an Onion headline and at first you think it's real.

This time, I saw what's evidently a real headline and at first I thought it was The Onion.

Tough times for satirists.

[davidthegnome]

24. There were investigations?

Seriously, like, maybe there should be something to show for them. A conviction, an accusation... a trial... something.

Those poor bastards are going to have to sell Hoover's dress collection now. Or maybe they could just stop pretending there's actually any real investigating.