While Department of Justice Let Financial Criminals Go Free, They Pursued Aaron Swartz to Death

[JDPriestly]

32. Being a defendant in a criminal case is extremely stressful. It would have been

especially stressful for him because he stated that he believed he was doing the right thing.

What "deep-rooted demons" have driven our Justice Department to let the owners and CEOs of mortgage companies and the big Wall Street banks who brought our economy down with their greed, lawlessness and stupidity?

Seems to me we would do well to ask that of our Justice Department.

As I have said so many times on DU, our bankers kept giving loans, never alerting our leaders to the simple fact that housing prices were rising at rates far higher than wages or savings.

Bankers are responsible for the job they do.

If a truck-driver negligently runs into a car and kills a passenger, the truck-driver is held responsible. He will probably lose his job or be put on notice that he could lose his job, and he might even face criminal charges for manslaughter depending on the facts.

How is it possible that our Justice Department allows the same Wall Street CEOs whose "deep-rooted" greed brought down our economy to continue without even explaining to us what they did wrong? Why are they allowed to proceed? Why were they bailed out? Why are they still running our banks, mortgage companies (those that survived) and Wall Street?