This is a complete list of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis

“But it’s shocking that for a crisis that drove the global economy off a cliff, caused millions of people to lose their homes and generally spread mass human misery to almost every corner of the earth there is no defining prosecution. No man or woman who led one of the firms directly culpable for the catastrophe has been put in a prison-orange jumpsuit. You might think that by now we could say that orange is the new charcoal pinstripes. But we can’t.” [Oh, so true…DC Ed]

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Five years after Lehman fell, taking the global economy along with it, a roll call of Wall Street CEOs serving time for their role in the crisis looks something like this:

So, yeah. Zero Wall Street CEOs are in jail. But we did promise you a list:

1. No one.

2. LOL.

3. Wall Street’s lawyers are amazing.

4. Etc. Etc.

It’s not that federal government tried to prosecute a bunch of them but lost the cases. There were no serious efforts at criminal prosecutions at all.

Read on.

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1 thought on “This is a complete list of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis

  1. What about the ratings houses. How have they gotten away with falsely rating securities as triple A when they were junk? Isn’t there direct culpability there?

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