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HooptieWagon

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7. You do know there were over 100 successful prosecutions for fraud from the S&L crisis?

Reply to ProSense (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 01:13 AM

Apr 2014

That was small potatoes compared to the scale of fraud committed leading up to the recent crash. Yet Obama Admin has failed to bring a single prosecution. Not one.

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