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Cal33

(7,018 posts)
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 07:16 PM Feb 2015

Eric Holder gives Prosecutors 90 Days to File Charges on 2008 Wall Street Collapse. Wow! Finally!

Holder said that he has given his underlings three months to determine whether they can secure indictments against bankers who are widely believed to have committed fraud while issuing, packaging, marketing and selling the residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) that caused last decade's multi-trillion dollar global financial meltdown.

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Holder also stated that he believed prosecutions have not resulted from the 2008 global financial collapse "not for lack of trying."

"These are the kinds of cases that people come to the Justice Department to make," he said. "Young people who want to be assistant US Attorneys in the Southern District of New York, and Eastern District of Virginia and San Francisco live for these cases. The inability to make them, at least at this point, has not been a result of a lack of effort."


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29181-in-last-gasp-attempt-to-shake-corrupt-reputation-holder-gives-prosecutors-90-days-to-file-wall-street-collapse-charges

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Eric Holder gives Prosecutors 90 Days to File Charges on 2008 Wall Street Collapse. Wow! Finally! (Original Post) Cal33 Feb 2015 OP
Isn't that all that's left before the statute of limitations runs out? Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #1
I don't know when the statute of limitations will run out in this case. It's not likely Cal33 Feb 2015 #2
Will it speed the Senate confirmation hearings for Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch? IADEMO2004 Feb 2015 #3
What's your angle, Mr. Holder? blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #4
It would be nice if it works -- whatever his angle is. Cal33 Feb 2015 #5
 

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)
1. Isn't that all that's left before the statute of limitations runs out?
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 07:17 PM
Feb 2015

Banker-criminals are home free in 90 days, it looks. Just in time to make the same exact mistakes, since not a one of them paid any price for it.

 

Cal33

(7,018 posts)
2. I don't know when the statute of limitations will run out in this case. It's not likely
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 07:22 PM
Feb 2015

that Holder has miscalculated.

IADEMO2004

(6,424 posts)
3. Will it speed the Senate confirmation hearings for Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch?
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 07:23 PM
Feb 2015

This is not a serious question.

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