CNN: Obama Taps Loretta Lynch As New Attorney General

[Ykcutnek]

CNN is reporting that President Barack Obama will nominate Loretta Lynch, a U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, to succeed Eric Holder as attorney general.

Lynch would be the first African-American woman to assume the position.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/loretta-lynch-attorney-general-obama-nomination

A bit about her record:

Lynch's office indicted Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, helped investigate Citigroup over mortgage securities sold by the bank, which resulted in the bank agreeing to a US$7 billion settlement, and was also involved in the US$1.2 billion settlement with with HSBC over lapses in the bank anti money laundering controls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_E._Lynch

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. And racist freeper heads will explode at the prospect of another African American attorney general.

There will be much gnashing of teeth.

[msanthrope]

4. Wait 'til you read the opposition from the 'Left.' nt

[Ykcutnek]

5. There's no good reason for anyone on the left to oppose her.

So we will know why if they do.

[msanthrope]

7. Well, expect the "corpratist" label. Even though she actually prosecuted the banks. nt

[rurallib]

37. all I ask is someone who will go after the banks, please!

[RobertEarl]

38. Wow

It is amazing you and the door are so set in your ways with so much vile hatred for the Left.

Gawd forbid the Left says anything bad about anybody or the two of you will be on them like limbaugh. Which ya'll are beginning to resemble more and more.

[msanthrope]

46. No--not the Left. The 'Left.' Look..after the last blowup you and I had, weren't you

going to put me on ignore?

[RobertEarl]

49. Ignore? You got blownup? I remember that. BOOM!

Why do you hate the "Left", 'Left', or the Left?

[msanthrope]

50. Look--I get that the Mercury thread was humiliating, but following me around and

accusing me of Limbaugh-like crap isn't going to help.

[RobertEarl]

51. Help?

I'm only here to make sure you get help.

Your hate of the "Left", or 'Left', or just plain Left, needs some help so you can learn to love us. Limbaugh is beyond help, but you? Possible.

[msanthrope]

55. Robert, after that mercury thread, your claims of wanting to 'help' me are

disingenuous.

I get that you were embarrassed, and I get that I played a role in that embarrassment.

[RobertEarl]

57. Now, I will just ignore you. Until later. Bye! BOOM!

[msanthrope]

58. Well, see!!! That's all I asked for!!! nt

[True Blue Door]

10. "Good reason" is rarely a prerequisite for certain contingents on the left.

If she ever said or did a single, solitary thing they dislike, or stood in the same room with a Republican, there will be some clown declaring her Joe Lieberman in a skirt.

Borderline Personality Disorder is kind of the defining characteristic in some neighborhoods of the left.

[msanthrope]

18. Check out downthread....nt

[Ykcutnek]

20. You two called it. Right on schedule. nt

[RobertEarl]

60. Yes <sarc>

Gawd forbid the Left, or 'Left', or "Left" speaks their mind about a new attorney general. Really, who do they think they are expressing an opinion????

This place is more and more getting to look like limbaugh overgroud.

[Ykcutnek]

63. Yes, because a site named after Limbaugh would be overjoyed about

appointing an African American woman who is tough on abusive police, indicts criminal Republican politicians, and punishes banks to the fullest extent of the law.

[True Blue Door]

25. Sometimes I get tired of being right.

[zeemike]

41. You mean like GG and Snowden?

Oh right, that was a different left...the left that likes the succulence state...and hates when it is exposed.

Funny how that works...But to criticize an appointment by Obama is rat fucking.
The more I see of this behavior the more I think of cults.

[True Blue Door]

54. What do Greenwald and Snowden have to do with this? Speaking of "cults"...

[zeemike]

71. Actually nothing at all.

Other than you should apply the same standards to them as you do to this...if it is fair for one it is fair for all...otherwise it is not fair.

[Yavin4]

2. On first read, I thought he appointed Loretta Lynn

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Look, I like her music. Esp. her duet with Jack White. But she's not qualified to be a U.S. Atty.

[Schema Thing]

6. Not if she's just gonna let the Joleens of this world roll right over her.

[LawDeeDah]

43. hee hee. I thought it was Polly Parton's Jolene.

Dolly for AG!

Thanks for the delicious giggle.

[Schema Thing]

69. aw dang it. did I confuse them?

[LawDeeDah]

72. doesn't matter.

and I said Polly instead of Dolly. We are all a mess today, aren't we?

[Schema Thing]

8. w/o comment

[Basic LA]

9. Nice one.

Got a good laugh there.

[TwilightGardener]

11. That's what I thought too.

[Sweet Freedom]

14. I read the same thing. /nt

[KingCharlemagne]

21. New Atty General Cautions: "Don't Come Home A'drinkin' (With Lovin'

On Your Mind)."

[Bluenorthwest]

59. That would be Jack White. Some great tracks, Loretta at her best in years.....

nt

[Yavin4]

67. Weird. Don't know why I wrote "Black"

Edited. Thanks.

[jtuck004]

62. I'm not sure that's a terrible idea. If the AG is just going to let banksters dine on the voters,

we might as well get good music out of it.

WASHINGTON — Is lying on a mortgage application fraud when lenders aren't interested in the truth?

...
The case turned on the expert testimony of William Black, a law professor and tireless critic of the banks, who told the jury that the lenders involved wanted so-called "liar loans" to acquire mortgages rapidly so they could sell them off at a profit. They specifically instructed loan officers not to verify stated income — an invitation for applicants to inflate the figure.

Black, who is affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was involved as a regulator in investigating and prosecuting the widespread fraud and corruption in the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s.
...
The acquittal in the California case in August came just ahead of the announcement last month that Attorney General Eric Holder would step down as soon as a successor can be confirmed.

"He will leave behind a mixed scorecard," Moyers said. "A for civil rights, C for civil liberties and F for failing to prosecute the banking executives who brought about the financial calamity of 2008."
...

Here.

[Cha]

3. Cool! And the Senate will either confirm her or Eric Holder will stay on the job.

thanks Ykcutnek

[kelliekat44]

61. Oh, yeah!! i am liking this move by the President. nt

[NOVA_Dem]

12. It doesn't matter who's picked...what matters are the values of the person making the selection.

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She's going to do what Obama approves just like Holder did. We've already seen her track record with Citi and HSBC.

I'm sure those that oppose her (based on her past work) will be labeled racist and sexist to shield against legitimate criticism.

Meet the new boss...

[rhett o rick]

13. So if the Conservative Senate likes her, is that a good thing? or bad? nm

[corkhead]

15. Did he get McConnell's permission before floating this nomination or is it part of a back room deal

that involves TPP, Fast Track, Keystone, and the "privatization" of Social Security?

[UTUSN]

16. R#8 & K, and SLAP!1 goes the glove on the Repuke Senate's cheek!1 n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. Good experience with police brutality, but she's part of the Bank Appeaser Crew

Like everybody else in the Second District.

[Recursion]

19. Because she took a multi-billion dollar settlement rather than a fruitless quest for jail terms?

Or is there other stuff in her past?

[Ykcutnek]

23. Anything short of the guillotine disqualifies her for some, I guess. nt

[LawDeeDah]

44. trial by fire with those hot rocks in the bankers palms

that's what I am holding out for, if they don't blister they are innocent!

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. You make someboldy admit something in court if you are a real prosecutor

You make them admit their actual wrong-doing in detail. You present the evidence against them in a public and transparent way.

None of that happened with the Citigroup deal, a backroom deal as backroom as they come.

It's fine, I suppose, that we get some billions from Citigroup (apparently tax deductible, since it is not a fine imposed by a court!). It's fine that they are forced to add $180 million for affordable housing, or whatever this vague stipulation actually cashed out as in practice.

But these settlements are a farce, precisely because they circumvent anything resembling legal process. You say that i insist on jail time, or whatever. Wrong. I do insist on a recognizable and transparent process, in which organizations who have committed major felonies are required to admit that and to detail their activities.

That's not asking for the "guillotine," as this newbie three-week old poster downthread is babbling about. It's not even asking for prison time for executives. It is asking for a basic, transparent process in a court of law. Short of that, whoever is pretending to act as a prosecutor is, indeed, a bank appeaser.

[Recursion]

28. Prosecutors take nolo pleas without allocutions all the time (nt)

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. Nolo pleas include detailed accountings of the acts

Not 9 page boilerplate bullshit.

[Recursion]

30. No, a nolo plea is not a confession

An allocution is pretty much only meaningful for a guilty plea. A nolo plea is an admission that sufficient evidence exists to obtain a conviction, not that any wrong was actually done.

[alcibiades_mystery]

31. Allowing Citigroup to make a "statement of facts" without admitting wrongdoing

is the fucking problem.

[msanthrope]

32. I agree that the complaint, as opposed to the settlement, should have been made

public. I don't agree with Holder on that.

But the problem, as the Taibbi article indicates, is that it is extremely difficult to prosecute individuals for criminal fraud, but not impossible to prosecute for civil fraud. Given a choice between the two, what would you have done?

[msanthrope]

22. Multi-billion dollar settlements is appeasing? How would you have proceeded? nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

27. See #26

That's my beef.

I'm glad you got around to asking me directly after your round of calling me out in this and other threads.

[geek tragedy]

33. Is there a circuit where the big bankers do get prosecuted? nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

40. Probably not

But there might be circuits where the US Attorneys don't specialize in backroom deals for bank fraudsters.

[geek tragedy]

45. I suspect those orders originate from DC. nt

[joeybee12]

24. Yeesh...I first read Loretta Lynn....

Wel, if she indicted Grimm, then she's fine in my book.

[Takket]

34. very interesting timing....

African American woman gets the nomination right after McConnell gets the keys to the senate. ball is in the republican's court now. My prediction is she will be approved with little opposition. The right's strategy was to block any and everything (whether they agreed with it or not) to make Obama look weak and now that they have control of the Senate it is in their own best interest to accept Lynch with open arms to make themselves look interested in moving the business of the nation forward.

We'll see how they play this.

[madokie]

35. Will the pukes confirm her?

Sounds like a lady I'd like to see as AG

[KamaAina]

42. I'm thinking they'll Sherrod her

[belzabubba333]

36. when i first saw this i thought it said loretta lynn

[LawDeeDah]

47. I thought it was David Lynch's sister. who also sings

[mfcorey1]

39. Listen! Do you hear it? It is the sound of the mainstream media looking for

all the dirt they can find on Loretta Lynch!

[jwirr]

48. If our present congress does not confirm her the next one will never do it. Just my prediction.

[Autumn]

52. Good. Get her in and get Holder in front of a special prosecutor.

Along with little lord Jamie.

[Jack Rabbit]

53. She sounds strong on civil rights, but weak on Wall Street accountability

The Republicans will vote to confirm and say "see, we compromised with the nigger President."

[Dopers_Greed]

56. I can see the arguments already

Repugs: "She's persecuting job creators! She went after Wall Street, the engine of the economy!"

Libs: "She didn't do enough to prosecute banks. She's going to give them sweetheart deals like Holder did."

M$M: "A bi-partisan majority disapprove of Obama's new AG pick. Is he the worst President ever?"

[Ykcutnek]

65. Apparently, Rush Limbaugh will love this pick.

And cheering on this pick means this site should be renamed: "Limbaugh Underground"

As I was just told upthread.

[Zorra]

64. Go get 'em, Loretta! nt

[Qutzupalotl]

66. Freepers want to "lynch" Obama,

so they'll probably get behind this.

[Old Nick]

68. So

Holder stays till 01/17.

[Moondog]

70. I wonder if this will chew up the entire lame duck session.

Or if it gets put on the back burner in favor of other issues.