Banking industries are not exempt from Rule of Law or our system of justice
Over the past two decades, global financial institutions have earned the moniker: ‘criminal enterprises’. Daily, we read about this sector’s self-dealing, theft, fraud, money-laundering and covert manipulation of rules designed to protect the world economies.
Despite its power, this industry is not exempt from the Rule of Law and our system of justice. It is time to demand that our elected officials choose sides. Are they loyal to the Republic and its people or to the banksters who have chosen short-term profits over America’s economic and political stability/survival?
From The Huffington Post
Banking Is a Criminal Industry Because Its Crimes Go Unpunished
Consider just this month’s news in financial services.
First, Barclay’s has been manipulating the Libor, the main interest rate upon which most other interest rates and financial transactions are based, since 2005. Moreover, Barclay’s traders were colluding with traders in many other banks to assist them in manipulating the Libor too, so that they could all profit from their bets on it.
Second, JP Morgan Chase is having a really great month. Recent reports describe how it is resisting Federal subpoenas related to price-fixing in U.S. electricity markets. It is also accused (by former employees among others) of deliberately inflating the performance of its investment funds to obtain business. And finally, JP Morgan’s failed “London whale” trade, which has now cost over $5 billion, is being investigated to determine whether the loss was initially concealed from regulators and the public.
Third, HSBC is paying a fine because it allowed hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of dollars of money laundering by rogue states and sanctioned firms, including some related to terrorist activities and Iran’s nuclear efforts. But HSBC is only one of at least 12 banks now known to have tolerated, and in some cases aggressively courted, money laundering by rogue states, terrorist organizations, corrupt dictators, and major drug cartels over the last decade. Others include Barclay’s, Lloyds, Credit Suisse, and Wachovia (now part of Wells Fargo). Several of the banks created special handbooks on how to evade surveillance, created special business units to handle money laundering, and actively suppressed whistleblowers who warned of drug cartel activities.
Fourth, a new private lawsuit cites documents indicating that Morgan Stanley successfully pressured rating agencies into inflating the ratings of mortgage-backed securities it issued during the housing bubble.
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