Sen Kaufman "Striking Observation" On JPMorgan Chase: Private Lawsuit Found Evidence the Feds Didn't [View all]
Former Sen. Ted Kaufman, whose epic struggle to bring Wall Street to justice was depicted in PBS Frontline's recent episode The Untouchables, made a striking observation on a press call today. "In a private case," Sen. Kaufman said, the Dexia bank's lawsuit "
uncovered reams of emails directly related to the fact that fraud was (allegedly) being committed by JPMorgan Chase."
He was referring to headlines like "E-Mails Imply JPMorgan Knew Some Mortgage Deals Were Bad" in the New York Times and "JPMorgan Hid Reports of Defective Loans Before Sales" in Bloomberg News. Sen. Kaufman added:
"It is just hard to believe that if the Department of Justice had made Wall St fraud a major priority, with the resources they have, they could not have found these same emails and brought these cases."
It's not just that the government wasn't bringing a case against JPMorgan Chase. Everybody in Washington from the President on down was praising its CEO, Jamie Dimon, claiming he was our nation's smartest and most ethical banker. So were a lot of reporters. Roger Lowenstein's flattering profile of the dyspeptic Dimon remains a classic of the Wall Street flattery genre.
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