CRIMINALLY CORRUPT - Eric Holder, Top DOJ Lawyers Were Partners With Big Banks (Reuters Investigation)
Any questions? What? You want the Department of Justice to prosecute financial fraud? Does anyone really expect the Attorney General to turn on his former clients.
Meanwhile, did you happen to notice how uncomfortable Holder and Geithner looked last night when the cameras focused on them, as Obama announced a new financial crimes task force during the SOTU speech? Suffice it to say that we don't expect much from this initiative.
Here are the details of the Reuters investigation revealed late last week.
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.
The firm, Covington & Burling (see Holder link), is one of Washington's biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and other federal ethics experts said that federal conflict of interest rules required Holder and Breuer to recuse themselves from any Justice Department decisions relating to law firm clients they personally had done work for.
Both the Justice Department and Covington declined to say if either official had personally worked on matters for the big mortgage industry clients. Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said Holder and Breuer had complied fully with conflict of interest regulations, but she declined to say if they had recused themselves from any matters related to the former clients.
Reuters reported in December that under Holder and Breuer, the Justice Department hasn't brought any criminal cases against big banks or other companies involved in mortgage servicing, even though copious evidence has surfaced of apparent criminal violations in foreclosure cases.
The evidence, including records from federal and state courts and local clerks' offices around the country, shows widespread forgery, perjury, obstruction of justice, and illegal foreclosures on the homes of thousands of active-duty military personnel.
In recent weeks the Justice Department has come under renewed pressure from members of Congress, state and local officials and homeowners' lawyers to open a wide-ranging criminal investigation of mortgage servicers, the biggest of which have been Covington clients. So far Justice officials haven't responded publicly to any of the requests.
While Holder and Breuer were partners at Covington, the firm's clients included the four largest U.S. banks - Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Co - as well as at least one other bank that is among the 10 largest mortgage servicers.
Jan 27, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Reader Comments (19)
We really can't do any of your punishments publicly except sentencing them to prison and confiscating their wealth. Too much screaming and yelling and Pepper Spray, Tazers, and batons plus the people dispensing these punishments would be expensive.
Guillotines however were real crowd pleasers from 1792 to 1981. can be reused hundreds of times without sharpening and only takes one operator. Cheap, entertaining and you can use whats left to feed the hogs.
I'm a tax payer. Where are my bailout payments from the big banks?
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"Losing billions to "respected" fraudsters, while they get an "assist" from government, and a free pass from the police......."
By now it is well known that our financial servants have become financial predators, in too many cases. What is not as well known is how your government servants are also in the game. The game is to sell out or remove protections for the public, so that corporations can earn greater profits Sometimes by doing illegal things. (imagine if this were done in oil, fracking, pharmaceuticals, forestry, and finance, etc., etc?)
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Cheers to your financial health,
Larry
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Jan 26, 2012 at 2:34 AM | Judson Witham"
You da man Judson!
gets around the Constitution
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-corruption/how-the-federal-government-gets-around-the-constitution.html
Attending a baby b-day party last Sat, and the sister (a well-connected liberal lawyer) of the Dad (my friend) approaches me and says: "hey, got something to show ya." She pulls out her iPhone and shows me a pic of her hugging/guffawing on a tall, mustached A-A man in the Freedom Center of Cincinnati (bankrupt) last week and says: "you know who that is? And I'll give ya a hint, he's not Stedman Graham."
My response: "Eric Holder."
Sister of friend: "Yes! Isn't he wonderful--the first ever A-A Attorney General of the US!!
My response: "Great. Hope you're proud. Tell him to prosecute..."
At that point she left me and refused to speak to me for the rest of the party despite only 10 people being there...
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Great story josie. It proves that the great majority of well-educated folks out there still don't care (or don't know) about wall street/banking fraud and even when confronted with the reality, they choose to ignore it and blame the party-attending messenger for daring to sully the reputation of someone they hold dear. Holder is a disgrace. From Fast & Furious gun-running to looking the other way on massive financial fraud, his tenure as AG is shameful. Good on you for pointing out the truth.
You Rock, Josie................Dont forget to use Clorx Clean-Up, on yr Elbows..............................?
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A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.
The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.
The bribed officials, an attorney with knowledge of the investigation told TheDC, remain on the taxpayers’ payroll at the Justice Department without any accountability. The DOJ source said Holder does not want to admit public officials accepted bribes while under his leadership.