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Frontline on Wall Street execs as The Untouchables
Re: Frontline on Wall Street execs as The Untouchables
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Re: Frontline on Wall Street execs as The Untouchables
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Re: Frontline on Wall Street execs as The Untouchables
by Indy » Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:42 pm
Here's the most depressing thing, JD. It reminds me of the Prohibition days in Chicago (no I wasn't alive back then) when Al Capone had everybody on his payroll--the cops, the judges, the jurors (!!!). The guy literally got away with murder multiple times and every crime under the sun.
It was only because the Feds came in that he went down and Chicago ultimately got cleaned up. But you had somebody bigger than local gov't that could swoop in.
There's nobody above the federal gov't to swoop in and take down the corruption. That's scary.
It was only because the Feds came in that he went down and Chicago ultimately got cleaned up. But you had somebody bigger than local gov't that could swoop in.
There's nobody above the federal gov't to swoop in and take down the corruption. That's scary.
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Re: Frontline on Wall Street execs as The Untouchables
by Indy » Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:49 pm
See now THERE is an idea!
Or, has anybody heard about cities using imminent domain to force the banks into readjusting people's mortgages so they're not being strangled? I believe they're trying it out in Cali. And of course Wall St. is fighting it tooth and nail.
Or, has anybody heard about cities using imminent domain to force the banks into readjusting people's mortgages so they're not being strangled? I believe they're trying it out in Cali. And of course Wall St. is fighting it tooth and nail.
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