Joseffy -- Yes, billionaire crooks can afford to hire their own dream-team of powerful lawyers from big law firms who are paid many times more than their public-funded opponents, and exert disproportionate influence on judges. But that's only if one of these rich bankers ever actually get charged with a crime.
Goldman Sachs sold subprime mortgages to their clients -- their CLIENTS, for heaven's sake, then, knowing full well these rotten mortgages were doomed to failure, essentially shorted them, purposely driving down prices while exasperating the whole sub-prime mortgage meltdown worldwide -- making billions and billions off the backs of their customer "muppets" who paid dearly and through-the-nose for the privilege of getting deliberately bad advice and faulty services -- people who lost their retirement savings, their pensions, every last dollar they had.
So the US DOJ fined the company a tiny fraction of their criminal gains and never went after a single one of the dirty rotten executives behind the fraud. Of course, after some of these prosecutors left DOJ, guess where they got hired with high-paying salaries...
That's our new oligarchy at work for you and me. |
