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For at least half a decade, the storied British colonial banking power helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, suspected in tens of thousands of murders just in the past 10 years – people so totally evil, jokes former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, that "they make the guys on Wall Street look good." The bank also moved money for organizations linked to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and for Russian gangsters; helped countries like Iran, the Sudan and North Korea evade sanctions; and, in between helping murderers and terrorists and rogue states, aided countless common tax cheats in hiding their cash.

"They violated every goddamn law in the book," says Jack Blum, an attorney and former Senate investigator who headed a major bribery investigation against Lockheed in the 1970s that led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. "They took every imaginable form of illegal and illicit business."

Ryoki wrote:Taibbi really went places after his The Exile adventure
I try to keep track of his writings, it's usually excellent stuff.

"Had the U.S. authorities decided to press criminal charges," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer at a press conference to announce the settlement, "HSBC would almost certainly have lost its banking license in the U.S., the future of the institution would have been under threat and the entire banking system would have been destabilized."

Plan B wrote:Time to start rioting, French revolution style. Bring forth the guillotine and all that.

Transient wrote:

"Had the U.S. authorities decided to press criminal charges," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer at a press conference to announce the settlement, "HSBC would almost certainly have lost its banking license in the U.S., the future of the institution would have been under threat and the entire banking system would have been destabilized."

Holy fuck. Why didn't Christopher Dorner go after these assholes?

obsidian wrote:

Plan B wrote:Time to start rioting, French revolution style. Bring forth the guillotine and all that.

FFS, I hope you're just being sarcastic. That sounds like serious tea-party mentality. Angry mobs destroying things, killing people, disregard for law, etc. isn't going to make things right.

scared? wrote:Feedback in a right wing authoritarian following moron...he's also unhealthly narcissistic...which will eventually cause him to snap and some point and pull a dorner...