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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Matt Taibbi: ''Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls''

From Rolling Stone

''Still, it wasn’t surprising that Holder didn’t pursue criminal charges against Goldman.  And that’s not just because Holder has repeatedly proven himself to be a spineless bureaucrat and obsequious political creature masquerading as a cop, and not just because rumors continue to circulate that the Obama administration – supposedly in the interests of staving off market panic – made a conscious decision sometime in early 2009 to give all of Wall Street a pass on pre-crisis offenses.

No, the real reason this wasn’t surprising is that Holder’s decision followed a general pattern that has been coming into focus for years in American law enforcement. Our prosecutors and regulators have basically admitted now that they only go after the most obvious and easily prosecutable cases.''

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