{"id":27925,"date":"2015-06-10T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=27925"},"modified":"2015-06-10T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T07:08:13","slug":"27925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/27925\/","title":{"rendered":"Why US Doesn&#8217;t Prosecute US Banks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have known from the beginning that Lanny Breuer, who the Obama administration chose as its head of the Criminal Division in order to ensure that there would be no prosecutions of the banksters that led, and were enriched by the fraud epidemics that drove the crisis, would be a national embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Breuer publicly admitted that what caused him to lose sleep was not the world&#8217;s most destructive fraud epidemics that ruined our economy or his grant of effective immunity to the banksters who led and became wealthy through those frauds. He lost sleep solely over his fear that if he held them accountable for the frauds that had bankrupted their corrupt banks those banks might be placed in receivership and honest managers appointed. (Of course, that isn&#8217;t how he phrased it, but that is what he was actually saying.)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Prosecuting-Banks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> \u00a0Prosecuting Banks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/27925\/prosecuting-banks-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27940\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Prosecuting-Banks.jpg\" alt=\"Prosecuting Banks\" width=\"494\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Prosecuting-Banks.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Prosecuting-Banks-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have known from the beginning that Lanny Breuer, who the Obama administration chose as its head of the Criminal Division in order to ensure that there would be no prosecutions of the banksters that led, and were enriched by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/27925\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We have known from the beginning that Lanny Breuer, who the Obama administration chose as its head of the Criminal Division in order to ensure that there would be no prosecutions of the banksters that led, and were enriched by the fraud epidemics that drove the crisis, would be a national embarrassment. 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