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15. I'll never understand....

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:24 PM

Nov 2013

...why this country will try everything in the book before they just do the right thing to begin with. Seriously, it happens day in and day out, year after year, decade after decade. This goes especially for the Dept of Justice...the one place you would think there could possibly be some good judgment.

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FED Judge criticizes lack of prosecution against Wall Street executives [View all] Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 OP

Put them in jail and they'll cut this crap out. tblue Nov 2013 #1

Yep. Fines lower than what they stole aren't a deterrent. Seize their assets and lock them up. Scuba Nov 2013 #2

Punching hippies is what the Very Serious People do Fumesucker Nov 2013 #3

Even our judicial system sees Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 #5

Yeah, well ... Scuba Nov 2013 #6

"Aggressively working?".. sendero Nov 2013 #4

The Statue of limitations is aggressively Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 #7

The Department of Justice�s Willful Blindness to the Willful Blindness of CEOs (Steve Cohen edition) BelgianMadCow Nov 2013 #8

^ Wilms Nov 2013 #9

Holder.. 4dsc Nov 2013 #10

Holder, Summers, Geithner, Jaime Dymon lark Nov 2013 #12

and the billionaires are twice as rich now Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 #14

Sickeningly true!!! lark Nov 2013 #24

It does. zentrum Nov 2013 #16

Are you really surprised? lark Nov 2013 #11

The plutocracy laughs at this judge and says his career is over. Rex Nov 2013 #13

I'll never understand.... ReRe Nov 2013 #15

As much as I appreciate and agree with the sentiment DefenseLawyer Nov 2013 #17

No, judging is what they do. mbperrin Nov 2013 #36

No, deciding the cases before them is "what they do" DefenseLawyer Nov 2013 #38

Well, of course you would never appear in front of any such judge, mbperrin Nov 2013 #41

Would you be just as pleased if this judge was criticizing prosecutors DefenseLawyer Nov 2013 #42

K&R DeSwiss Nov 2013 #18

K&R'd! snot Nov 2013 #19

Can the American people file complaints about crime themselves and force the hand sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #20

+1 a whole bunch.......nt Enthusiast Nov 2013 #39

Prosecute! wowser Nov 2013 #21

I'm for it. mbperrin Nov 2013 #37

"Justice Dept...spokeswoman said...prosecutors are "aggressively working" on...investigations" woo me with science Nov 2013 #22

HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #23

Indeed. We need to start building new prisons for all the white collar crime Lodestar Nov 2013 #25

we have enough prisons onethatcares Nov 2013 #27

It's probably hard to prosecute them since Turbineguy Nov 2013 #26

"Why didn't this news get higher exposure?" red dog 1 Nov 2013 #28

Fire Eric DonCoquixote Nov 2013 #29

+ 1000 red dog 1 Nov 2013 #34

99% of Americans feel the same way. nt valerief Nov 2013 #30

Most rididulous line in the entire article: 99Forever Nov 2013 #31

This administration's FIRST priority was to bail out these criminals to the tune of trillion$$$. Romulox Nov 2013 #32

Too big to fail, Too big to Jail 99th_Monkey Nov 2013 #33

A Wall St. White House won't ever prosecute Wall St. They're "Too Big To Jail"! blkmusclmachine Nov 2013 #35

That's great but would mean more if done before the statute of limitations ran out. pam4water Nov 2013 #40