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Federal judge asks: Why haven’t any top executives been prosecuted for financial crisis? [link only]
Raw Story [link only] | January 2, 2014 | Travis Gettys

Posted on 01/02/2014 7:30:18 PM PST by grundle

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/federal-judge-asks-why-havent-any-top-executives-been-prosecuted-for-financial-crisis/


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KEYWORDS: barackobama; obama
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1 posted on 01/02/2014 7:30:18 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Then they all had a hearty laugh!


2 posted on 01/02/2014 7:30:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: grundle

Better question. Why hasn’t Barney Frank been arrested?


3 posted on 01/02/2014 7:31:18 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: grundle

Start with Barney Fwank.


4 posted on 01/02/2014 7:31:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: grundle

Perhaps there were no crimes committed.


5 posted on 01/02/2014 7:32:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: grundle

I agree! why hasn’t anyone prosecuted Obama yet !?!

He’s the nations chief executive, is he not?


6 posted on 01/02/2014 7:33:00 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: grundle

Is that his job?


7 posted on 01/02/2014 7:33:07 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: grundle

The Republic needs a complete reboot and that includes throwing out every federal judge and not allowing any of them to hold a federal judgeship ever again. Worthless bastards ought to be made to all ride the circuit and I mean on horses like every one of them including supreme court justices did in the beginning. They need a dose of reality.


8 posted on 01/02/2014 7:33:35 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: grundle

Why has no one in Congress, White House or the bureaucracy been charged??


9 posted on 01/02/2014 7:34:46 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: grundle

That’s funny because I’ve been asking myself why haven’t any Federal “judges” been prosecuted for their disregard of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, legislating from the bench and their political activism. Our “judicial system” is very anti-Caucasian and anti-American! Stalin and Hitler would be proud though.


10 posted on 01/02/2014 7:37:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Truth Is Out There. Just don't let anyone know that you're looking for it.)
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To: grundle
maybe because Congress is equally responsible, especially Senator Dodd and Congressman Frank. Democrats controlled both houses the last two years of the Bush presidency and he went to them something like 17 times trying to make changes in the law that he thought would avert the crisis. The Democrats obviously wanted the financial crisis.
11 posted on 01/02/2014 7:37:45 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: grundle

Why hasn’t our Chief Executive Officer (POTUS) been prosecuted?


12 posted on 01/02/2014 7:38:14 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: grundle

The answer is in the first paragraph of the article...the statute of limitations has tolled in most if not all of these cases. And if it hadn’t, then this judge would be accused of all manner of dirty deeds and most of the subject cases would be near-certain mistrials.

Besides, we like and need our bankster masters.


13 posted on 01/02/2014 7:40:58 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: grundle

Kudos to this Judge and many of us here have asked the same thing over and over.

There is an answer though - You have to begin at the top and that would be the Freddie/Fannie execs who cooked the books and lied to congress to preserve there mega-bonuses prior to the collapse. Many of them were diehard Clintonistas and elite progressives so they had top-cover. The statute of limitations is now expired on this stuff.... Issa missed his chance for a most meaningful series of hearings and one can only conclude they are all in on it.

Enron costs the public very little people went to jail - Fannie/Freddie cost our nation trillions and nobody went to jail. Go figure.

The banks would also have an interesting defense that they were only doing what congress and the DOJ demanded they do - increase diversity in their portfolios regardless of the ability of the loan recipient to pay. The banks gave the politicians enough sugar to be able to originate the loan making a bit of money and then dump the bundled crap on the government supported entities. Pretty soon, everyone to include Freddie/Fannie began to package this crap as mortgage backed investment instruments and the Feds/congress/bankers told the whole world how shiny these turds were and they were backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. and the rest is history.

If you think I am wrong, why did the Fed give so much of TARP to foreign banks? Hint - look at how heavily they were invested in our mortgage backed securities.


14 posted on 01/02/2014 7:41:27 PM PST by volunbeer
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To: elpadre
Shuuush!

No record of it!...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yga7TlsA-1A&gl=CO&hl=es-419

15 posted on 01/02/2014 7:42:28 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: grundle
Because behind every executive is a slimy politician? Exposing the executive exposes the politician?

Countrywide Chris Dodd will be the last politician who is ousted. And he wasn't prosecuted, he just declined to run again.

I'm still waiting for Sarbanes-Oxley charges to be filed against Jon Corzine.

-PJ

16 posted on 01/02/2014 7:43:04 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: elpadre
The Democrats obviously wanted the financial crisis.

No question about it.

IMO, the 'Rats also intentionally engineered the crisis -- as part of a plan to "transform" America into a Euro-style Nanny State.

17 posted on 01/02/2014 7:45:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Perhaps there were no crimes committed.

Oh there were crimes committed, of that you can be sure. Just for starters, S&P and the other rating agencies marking piles of mortgages as AAA so the brokers could get top dollar when they sold "Mortgage Backed Securities" on the open market. A 44 year old undocumented strawberry picker with an income of $19,000 in his best year, got a $725,000 mortgage in California and it was rated AAA. This story was repeated countless times. Standard and Poors rated truckloads of these, and that amounts to fraud on the unsuspecting buyers and their insurers.

I could go on and on but I like short posts. Google Fanny and Freddy and look at their part in the meltdown. If Justice was truly blind, there would have been nightly perp walks for years.

18 posted on 01/02/2014 7:49:45 PM PST by Wingy
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To: grundle

because it was congress’s fault?


19 posted on 01/02/2014 7:51:42 PM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: Wingy

@ Post 18. You get it. FRegards!


20 posted on 01/02/2014 7:59:45 PM PST by volunbeer
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