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6. Who do you want to nab at HSBC?

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 10:18 PM

Dec 2012

The execs in London?

Go for it.

Prosecutors here have no chance. The best they can do is some mid-level NYC account manager.

$1.9 billion hurt the execs the only place they care about.

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HSBC, Too Big to Jail, and the US Two-Tiered Justice System [View all] Octafish Dec 2012 OP

Finally! upi402 Dec 2012 #1

Hey, upi402! Greenwald's the fellow who wants to send Bush and Cronies to prison. Octafish Dec 2012 #5

Nixon = Gangster nt Taverner Dec 2012 #2

Agree Totally. The other guy wuz his Boss, Prescott Bush. Octafish Dec 2012 #7

K&R newfie11 Dec 2012 #3

America's Descent Into Darkness -- Slouching Towards Nuremberg? Octafish Dec 2012 #9

thanks I just put this on my facebook page newfie11 Dec 2012 #21

I had a city official say something to me today upi402 Dec 2012 #4

What you said. I wonder how many of our officials have heard of Gov. Don Siegelman? Octafish Dec 2012 #11

Who do you want to nab at HSBC? banned from Kos Dec 2012 #6

That wasn't the reason given by Breuer Prometheus Bound Dec 2012 #10

Yeah, I agree about the fine.......... socialist_n_TN Dec 2012 #12

$22 Billion in Profits for HSBC in 2011. Less than $2 Billion in Fines for MONEY LAUNDERING. Octafish Dec 2012 #14

.... RainDog Dec 2012 #8

This kind of shit is why I'm a commie..... socialist_n_TN Dec 2012 #13

It makes me sick to be an American whatchamacallit Dec 2012 #15

Recommended. H2O Man Dec 2012 #16

What? Why worry? upi402 Dec 2012 #17

I've always wondered why this isn't discrimination against the poor peasant one Dec 2012 #18

Another hearty K and R. HCE SuiGeneris Dec 2012 #19

I can really resonate to this. Greenwald is a great writer, at least I think so. Trillo Dec 2012 #20