Wall Street Shill Lanny Breuer Done At DOJ
SCENE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLES
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Update - Read the DOJ Press Release On Breuer's Resignation
Reaction from around the web:
Bye Bye Lanny... (Wash Po)
"Lanny A. Breuer is leaving the Justice Department after leading the agency’s efforts to clamp down on public corruption and financial fraud at the nation’s largest banks."
Darrell Issa: Breuer’s Resignation 'Is Long Overdue'... (Wash Po)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued a sort of good riddance on Thursday to Lanny Breuer. “Breuer was at heart of several critical failures in Operation Fast and Furious,” Issa said. “He knew about reckless tactics, failed to take seriously allegations that they were continuing, and only owned up to his failures once they were publicly exposed.”
The Long Goodbye Of Lanny Breuer... (Legal Times Blog)
In the Frontline piece, Kevin Perkins, associate deputy director of the FBI, said he and Breuer have argued "back and forth" over whether certain cases should have moved forward as criminal prosecutions. Perkins said he was at times frustrated and disappointed. But he said he accepted, as a "professional," the final decision.
Frontline Gets Its Man: Lanny Breuer Is Done At DOJ... (Must Read)
Breuer/Holder failed to investigate fully.
FRONTLINE: We spoke to a couple of sources from within the Criminal Division, and they reported that when it came to Wall Street, there were no investigations going on. There were no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.
LANNY BREUER: Well, I don't know who you spoke with because we have looked hard at the very types of matters that you're talking about.
Breuer/Holder failed to reach out to key whistle blowers.
FRONTLINE: Another criticism that has been thrown at you is that you've not done enough to go looking for the whistle-blowers that are out there. We have been able to contact a number of people who were inside the banks, doing due diligence work as contractors, who all told us that they were never contacted by the Justice Department.
BREUER: I can't talk in general about nondescript, anonymous whistle-blowers. But here's what I can tell you. Whenever I personally have been in any public setting, I've invited whistle-blowers to come forward.
Breuer/Holder worried more about the fragility of the banks than cleaning up corruption on Wall Street.
FRONTLINE: You gave a speech before the New York Bar Association. You talked about your use of nonprosecution and deferred prosecution agreements. And in that speech, you made a reference to "losing sleep at night over worrying about what a lawsuit might result in at a large financial institution." Is that really the job of a prosecutor, to worry about anything other than simply pursuing justice?
BREUER: I think I and prosecutors around the country, being responsible, should speak to regulators, should speak to experts, because if I bring a case against institution A, and as a result of bringing that case there's some huge economic effect, it affects the economy so that employees who had nothing to do with the wrongdoing of the company... If it creates a ripple effect so that suddenly counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly, it's a factor we need to know and understand.
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Lanny Breuer in his own words:
Bloomberg interviews Breuer.
Watch the whole interview, but pay particular attention at the 2:30 mark. Breuer is shocked by the question and admits "we don't know anything about that letter" before changing the subject. His answer is completely ridiculous on so many painful levels (prosecutors are supposed to investigate for chrissakes), but again this is what happens when you have criminal defense attorneys from Covington & Burling running DOJ.
No word on whether Breuer gave his famous pep talk to HSBC execs on avoiding prison.
"We are frequently on the receiving end of presentations from defense counsel, CEOs, and economists who argue that the collateral consequences of an indictment would be devastating for their client. In my conference room, over the years, I have heard sober predictions that a company or bank might fail if we indict, that innocent employees could lose their jobs, that entire industries may be affected, and even that global markets will feel the effects. Sometimes – though, let me stress, not always – these presentations are compelling."
Photo by William Banzai7...
The Crony Top Gun is named Breuer
The DOJ's fraud case pursuer
The Kleptocrat's guy
Just turned a blind eye
And Justice is now in the sewer
The Limerick King
May 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Reader Comments (30)
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a large corporate environment, and was successful regardless of circumstances. So, fuck off.
http://dailybail.com/home/pbs-frontline-wall-street-untouchables.html
Now onto the action. We have a disagreement among Team Red Pill members about Obama's appointment of Mary Jo White to head the S.E.C.
Neil Barofsky and Dennis Kelleher say she's a great appointment:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/obama-sec-pick-pleases-wall-street-critics
Matt Taibbi thinks she's a disaster:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/choice-of-mary-jo-white-to-head-sec-puts-fox-in-charge-of-hen-house-20130125#ixzz2J18oIqqc
This is a lay-up for Taibbi, imo. Barofsky and Kelleher appear to be AWOL from long-term Hopium treatment facilities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhouTVYs_Q
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/mary-jo-white-great-appointment-chris-whalen-145954076.html
At 3-1 odds against, betting on 0 material change at the S.E.C. has to be overlay of the decade.
http://www.senseoncents.com/2013/01/mary-jo-white-next-sec-chiefs-skeleton-in-closet/
This episode speaks volumes about the infectiously toxic scope of corruption, which blankets the entire politico-financial culture of Washington-Wall Street. Mary Jo White is another roach from under that quilt, and no amount of happy talk can change her funamentally corrupt nature.
Unlike the United States of Fraudulent Leaders and Frivolous Commentary, Iceland's attempts to prosecute fraud were serious. When selecting a sheriff to clean up the bankers' mess over there, Iceland altogether bypassed the seat of its own corruption:
"A new government led by Johanna Sigurdardottir embarked on a campaign to hold accountable the so-called neo-Viking bankers at the center of Iceland’s crisis. Instead of picking a prosecutor from law firms in Reykjavik, which had depended on the banks for business, the government drafted an investigator from a remote village."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/is-remedy-for-next-crisis-buried-in-iceland-view-correct-.html
The rest is history. Iceland arrested and prosecuted 200 bankers (which equates to 200,000 here)...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Iceland-s-H-r-ur-Torfaso-by-C-C-121212-712.html
... and VOILA!, its unemployment rate dropped to below 5 percent.
http://icelandpulse.com/icelandreview/8735-unemployment-drops-below-5-percent
I only wish there were some way to take action on how quickly and how massively Mary Jo White will fail as a regulator.
http://zdnet.com/anonymous-hacks-us-sentencing-commission-disributes-files-700010369/
http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-hacks-us-sentencing-commission-disributes-files-700010369/
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That isn't just a command to nuke the file itself. "/" is the root of the linux filesystem. If you run that "rm -rf /" at the end of that command, you will delete your system.
It's a way to troll people who aren't tech savvy.
So just remove the "&&" and everything after it, and you should be fine.
Looks like they went after the Supremes!
warhead sizes
Alito 150 mb
Breyer 150 mb
Ginsburg 150 mb
Kagan 132.73 mb
Kennedy 108.35 mb
Roberts 22.78 mb
Scalia 150 mb
Sotomayor 100.62 mb
Thomas 150 mb
http://firedoglake.com/2013/01/27/tough-prosecutor-or-servant-of-wall-street
Commenter #1 on the piece keeps it real: "Jamie Dimon thinks she is perfect for the job. Tells you all you need to know."
Every single time I watch PBS' FRONTLINE's "The Untouchables" I want to vomit in Lanny Breuer's lying face!
Britain and Israel, with traitors within the U.S. government sucking up to the CFRtv and Associated Press Rothschilds, did the attacks of 9-11-2001, etc. as part of an old, established, long range plan, and they continue attacks against the U.S. using various U.S./Anglo cults and high tech along avenues of blind-side vulnerability. Put me in power and I will make sure the sons of bitches never forget the evil they do here today and yesterday, and experience the reality that Satan does not share his toys. Get straight. There ain't any 'plausible deniability' within miles of this one. Even if queen lizard and her fools do not know what 'ain't' means.
Did ya'll notice the blond green jogger right next to the Boston Marathon bomb detonation flip the older man runner to her right a mouse sized white object just before he caught it and tumbled? She did not flinch, though closer to the blast than the older man catcher. Where's the Jedi in you? The 'green suited blond jogger terrorist' is right out of the 'Illuminati deck of cards'. While you review that, review the videos and stills of the Chechnyan's back pack still leaning up against the mailbox at the bomb site, INTACT, long after most of the people have cleared out. No one still onsite is concerned by its presence. Another innocent man tortured to death because of the loser punk-bully in training attitudes of the majority of CFRtv adherent Americans these days.
Nearly two years after the DB commentariat defied lofty opinions from the likes of Neil Barofsky, Chris Whalen, Dennis Kelleher, etc. about the appointment of the great Mary Jo White to head the S.E.C., which commentariat roundly denounced her as an autocratic shill, now comes an admirable confession of error about MJW from Yves Smith:
"Now I have to admit I was taken with the story of White as a tough prosecutor, not based on stories like this (yikes) but on her record at the Department of Justice and the endorsement of people who’d worked with her like Neil Barofsky as well as other respected, skeptical lawyers like John Coffee of Columbia. But we’ve seen the reverse from her so far."
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/secs-mary-jo-white-approves-torture.html
So Mary Jo White coddles bankers instead of regulating them, and is okay with torture for everyone else. Yup. Sounds like a card-carrying member of the syndicate, just like we predicted 2 years ago.
When will people learn?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-16/secs-mary-jo-white-embodies-promotes-wall-street-regulator-revolving-door-policy-new
Just wow. Has there ever been an S.E.C. chair before who was such a colossal scumbag that people went out of their way to actually memorialize the filth?
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/06/if-elizabeth-warren-is-already-angry-at-mary-jo-white-wait-until-she-hears-about-this/