UBS Libor Manipulator Should Have Had His Lawyer Girlfriend Screen His IMs Too

That detail is from this amazing Wall Street Journal article about Hayes. When we last discussed Hayes and his totally open and casual requests to people he'd just met to manipulate Libor for him, I asked "is this: (1) all of these people did not fully realize that they weren't supposed to be doing what they were doing, (2) UBS's culture was one of complete lawlessness and fuck-around-ery, or (3) both of those things are true and reinforce each other?," and per the Journal the answer is fascinatingly (3). ''