Nobody Is Above the Law.

"If you're caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you're going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night...I think that's fundamentally wrong."  ~ Senator Elizabeth Warren - U.S. Senator from Massachusettes
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/elizabeth-warren-comes-out-swinging-banks-regulators.php
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HSBC to pay $1.9 billion U.S. fine in money-laundering case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/11/us-hsbc-probe-idUSBRE8BA05M20121211
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"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy. And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large." ~ Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Not one of the Wall Street crooks who drove our economy off a cliff has gone to jail. And now we know why.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/jail_bankers/index_split_name.html?r_by=56093-1329289-LmbDLex&rc=mailto-n1
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All Of The Sudden, Bashing Wall Street Is Becoming A Hot Bipartisan Pastime In Washington

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-holder-wall-street-too-big-to-jail-2013-3#ixzz2NjLn28qF
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How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it
 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214#ixzz2NjMTA0gK

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214
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And the unions are waiting in line, too.  It's payback time.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/31/barack-obama-i-owe-those-unions/

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