A renewed “hope” – almost afraid to wish…
lol Now, that would be a hoot. I hope Obama puts this man on his short list…
Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to the exit door — and that’s making Wall Street nervous.
Executives in the financial services industry see Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara as a possible successor — and with his tough-on-corporate-crime history, believe a renewed focus on Wall Street could be coming to Washington.
Holder, after six years atop the Justice Department, is seen as not interested in highlighting white-collar crimes.
“[Holder] was pretty easy on Wall Street,” Marc LoPresti, a corporate and securities lawyer in New York, told The Post.
“It’s glaring that past financial debacles have led to prosecutions of high-level executives but we have seen almost no prosecution of individuals involved in wrongdoings of financial institutions related to the 2007-2009 financial crisis,” said Anat Admati, a professor of finance at Stanford’s graduate school…
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