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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-16-13 08:26 AM
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Obama admin, like Bush admin, refuses to prosecute banksters
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Bill Black: The FBI’s 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report Reveals Why the Banksters Love Holder

By Bill Black, the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One and an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cross posed from New Economic Perspectives

The Obama administration’s continuation of the Bush administration’s refusal to prosecute the elite banksters (or even the vastly lower status CEOs of the fraudulent mortgage bank) that drove the crisis has made it clear that the rule of law no longer applies to wide ranges of life and that crony capitalism will continue to reign.

One of the difficulties we have is that because the last two administrations have fanatical devotees of the cult of the Virgin Crisis – the myth that the ongoing crisis was the first in modern times conceived without sin (control fraud) – that it is exceptionally difficult to know what their creed is.

DOJ has refused to prosecute any elite banker for mortgage loan origination fraud. The rare prosecutions it has brought against senior officials of fraudulent loan originator (a large, but obscure regional mortgage bank: Taylor Bean) did not prosecute the officials for their fraudulent origination (or sale) of loans. They Taylor Bean officials were only prosecuted for their fraud against the TARP program – and only because Neil Barofsky (SIGTARP) made the criminal referral about that fraud and pushed relentlessly to force the Department of Justice to prosecute. With zero prosecutions of the massively fraudulent home lenders that drove the crisis to we are left with no information on why committing hundreds of thousands of frauds via the twin epidemics of loan origination fraud (inflating appraisals and making endemically fraudulent “liar’s” loans) is no longer a crime that the FBI investigates and DOJ prosecutes. No senior DOJ or FBI official, of course, is stupid enough to state openly why we no longer prosecute even the CEOs of long-bankrupt mortgage banks that led these accounting control frauds. The U.S. Attorney for Sacramento, one of the epicenters of accounting control fraud, was foolish enough to attempt to explain why he did not investigated or prosecute the banksters:


Read more: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/bill-black-the-fbis-2010-mortgage-fraud-report-reveals-why-the-banksters-love-holder.html

Change and hope, my friends, change and hope.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-16-13 08:48 AM
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1. Bill Black is a dangerous radical, possibly ever a terrorist.
:sarcasm:

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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-16-13 09:38 AM
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2. Creepers, Enthusiast, you scared me.
I see I messed up the quote feature again. Sigh.
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