Get the people since you can't get the Corporation. Big deal. Lets see them go after Goldman-Sachs, Morgan-Stanley, Merrill-Lynch & Smith-Barney. All they did to those brokers for running the PRIMEX trading scam for a year on NASDAQ, was slap them with a $26 million fine, with no admission of guilt. Meanwhile, they pocketed billions. Worse they're still doing similar trading schemes, what they call "making the market and providing liquidity". Humans can't get away with this sort of bullshit, they face jail.

Lewis's defense is Bernanke/Paulson made me do it, under threat of being fired.

Wall Street is a ponzi scheme. No one should trust these greedfuckers. They aim to steal everyone's 401Ks and Social Security and Medicare too. The real story behind the privatization of everything is reversion to a medieval social and economic strucutre, with excess for CEOs and debt peonage for everyone else. That always where Capitalism ends up. You don't need to be Keynes to undertand this, anybody that played Monopoly experiences the same thing. So far, they're right on track.

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, that's what we have for a fucking Government.

The charges are not bullshit, though they clearly are targeting, once again, low men on the totem pole.

On the one hand the highest level of Constitutional Law, time and money will be allocated for white collar crime, making it difficult, if not impossible to prove. The Prosecutor will have to prove intent, while the defense will argue their client was merely stupid. The easy fix of course is to invoke rackateering laws, which is a legitimate parrallel.

On the other hand Coakly, Guliana and others have had no problem getting convictions for poor accused day care workers accused of animal sacrifice and bathroom rape of children during working hours.