ML-Implode News - Richard (RJ) Eskow: Attorney General to U.S.: Nothing to See On Wall Street, Folks, Just Move Along

`` he department and its investigative partners conducted an exhaustive review of the report and its exhibits, independently gathered and scrutinized a large volume of other documents, and tenaciously pursued potential evidentiary leads, including conducting numerous witness interviews.
The D.O.J. also boasts that "Since FY 2011, the Department of Justice's financial fraud enforcement efforts have resulted in at least $185 billion in civil and criminal forfeitures, restitution, civil settlements and other penalties." (Bankers have continued to collected huge salaries and bonuses, however, so the lack of criminal prosecution gives them no reason to stop committing crimes.)

The statement goes on to describe D.O.J.'s "aggressive" pursuit of bank fraud, adding that "The Department of Justice has not hesitated to investigate and take enforcement action when the evidence and facts support doing so."

Holder himself was considerably more testy: "There have been, I guess, 2,100 or so mortgage-related matters that we have brought here at United State Department of Justice. Our state counterparts have done a variety of things. The notion that there has been inactivity over the course of the last three years is belied by a troublesome little thing called facts."''

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Attorney General to U.S.: Nothing to See On Wall Street, Folks, Just Move Along