Geithner on Financial Crimes: The Dog Ate My Homework
If I rob a federally insured bank and make off with $20,000, I'm facing years of federal prison time. If I defraud federal insurance programs, be they FHA or Medicaid, I'm also facing years of prison....
View ArticleIG report on Fast & Furious will come in “weeks and not months”
Next shoe to drop? The next shoe to drop in the case of Operation Fast and Furious may not fall in federal court, where the House will attempt to force Attorney General Eric Holder to cough up...
View ArticleSay, how come the DOJ isn’t prosecuting top Obama crony Jon Corzine?
Theories. Via Breitbart, three possibilities here, all of them plausible and by no means mutually exclusive. One: The DOJ just isn’t in the business of prosecuting bankers anymore. If they didn’t go...
View ArticleReport: GOP investigation finds five top ATF officials responsible for Fast &...
Terrific. Fearless prediction: Whatever happens on election day, we’re going to have ourselves a new Attorney General next year. Obama wouldn’t dump him before for fear of looking weak by caving to...
View ArticleDid the DoJ lie about political interference in the New Black Panther Party...
It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. We’ve followed the strange decision to dismiss a case of voter intimidation that the Department of Justice had already won, stemming from the 2008 election and...
View ArticleDid We Just Find Someone to Take On the Banks?
Did We Just Find Someone to Take On the Banks? To see how the federal government has pursued money-laundering cases against big banks over their dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. trade...
View ArticleIt’s Good to be a Bankster… Goldman Skates
*JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONCLUDES GOLDMAN SACHS PROBE :GS US *JUSTICE DEPT. WON’T PROSECUTE GOLDMAN SACHS, EMPLOYEES: AP *JUSTICE FINDS NO `VIABLE BASIS’ FOR CHARGES AGAINST GOLDMAN *SENATE INVESTIGATIONS...
View ArticleGreat news: Prominent Dem and Obama bundler probably won’t be prosecuted for...
What a shock. One of the relatively few criticisms of the Obama administration from the Left has been the curious lack of prosecutions over the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street. If, as Barack...
View ArticleDoJ approves new voter-ID law in Virginia
Lipstick. The Department of Justice, which is currently embroiled in fights over voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas, has passed on an opportunity to pick a fight in Virginia. TPM’s Ryan Reilly...
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