A piece in yesterday’s New
York Jewish Fish Wrapper explains how too-big-to-fail bankers avoid criminal
prosecution. Seems, as we understand it at least, Crime Families are
hiring outside lawyers to conduct parallel “internal” investigations whenever
the Feds announce one, and then, get this, shielding themselves from government
scrutiny with the assertion that all relevant material subpoenaed by Washington is
subject to attorney-client privilege, and they DON’T HAVE TO RELEASE A $#%&ING
THING.
Beyond that, it sounds
like regulatory snoops routinely take something like three and a half years to
start in, letting these lowlifes claim they don’t remember anything anyway.
Ultimately, lawyers in an
administration embracing bribes labeled “political contributions”, especially
really big “political contribution” bribes from financial racketeers, are deciding
that this lawyer-client privilege is a sacrosanct principle of, well,
lawyering, we guess, allowing the $#%&ing arch-villains to remain free to
go about their $#%&ing arch-villainy and screw us again.
And again and again and
again.
