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4_TN_TITANS

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3. What bullshit... You better believe I'd be in jail
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 09:32 AM
Dec 2012

with a $250,000 fine for the company if I shipped the smallest trinket of high alloy (titanium, zirc, etc.) to Iran, much less laundering who-knows-how-much money for them.

I've about had it with immunity for the banksters but hell to pay for the rest of us. Holder is about as useful as the dried dog shit I found on my shoe this morning.

This should go rec'ed, and not unkicked..... marmar Dec 2012 #1
it's hard to argue that it's not them rather than governments who run the show. nt xchrom Dec 2012 #2
What bullshit... You better believe I'd be in jail 4_TN_TITANS Dec 2012 #3
I disagree atreides1 Dec 2012 #8
When the Dept of Injustice won't send criminals to jail because their network is so embedded ancianita Dec 2012 #4
If the bank was located in a country we deemed as supporting terrorism, we would have.... OldDem2012 Dec 2012 #5
HSBC 2011 profit = $22 Billion; MONEY LAUNDERING fine = $2 Billion Octafish Dec 2012 #6
Doesn't matter atreides1 Dec 2012 #9
Its the new right wing business model AgingAmerican Dec 2012 #11
When an actual person commits such a crime they are jailed Lefty Thinker Dec 2012 #7
How are the shareholders responsible? atreides1 Dec 2012 #10
You dont understand corporations are not people....oh wait. Maybe I dont understand. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #13
Iceland jailed it's bankers, and the politicians that enabled them AgingAmerican Dec 2012 #12
If anyone thinks that this is the only bank doing this, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #14
We place pregnant mothers in prison for traffic violations, yet bankers who lauder money for war and midnight Dec 2012 #15
NPR actually did a good piece on this today - pointed out how when Michael Milken bullwinkle428 Dec 2012 #16
K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2012 #17
So Corps are people, just super duper important ones that can't be bothered to follow the law. blackspade Dec 2012 #18
I find it hard to believe Texano78704 Dec 2012 #19
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