Huffington Post Here’s a fact that may make your blood boil: Nearly 8,000 Occupy Wall Streetprotesters have been arrested in association with the activist movement, while not one banker has been prosecuted for the actions that lead up to the country’s financial meltdown.
The website OccupyArrests.com has tracked 7,736 in 122 cities nationwide since theOccupy movement began in September 2011.
On Monday, hundreds of members of Occupy Our Homes, an organization that supports homeowners facing foreclosure, protested outside of the Justice Department to speak out against homeowner abuses in the wake of the housing crisis. Seventeen former homeowners were arrested that day, according to Washington police.
“We want our attorney general, Eric Holder, to bring some accountability from the banks and put them in jail,” protester Vivian Richardson, whose home was foreclosed on in 2010, told The Huffington Post Monday.
The Department of Justice has long been a target of Occupy protesters for its unwillingness to take judicial action against those responsible for the financial crisis.
Even Attorney General Eric Holder has acknowledged that some of the nation’s largest banks have become too big to prosecute — a claim he later walked back onafter it incited backlash.
Just last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to federal officials demanding to know why no Wall Street bank has faced prosecution in the wake of the crisis.
To Big to Prosecute?? Is this like To big to fail? Holder Obama legalize theft.
If Eric Holder isn’t going to prosecute the bankers, he should let someone else do it. It has been done before where a banker/securities trader was jailed, think Milken was his name. And they should be jailed longer than ten years. What ever the amount it was they stole, should be the amount of time they get. They ruined peoples lives and gave them false hope under the pretense they were safe.
Eric Holder must be prosecuted for aiding and abetting fraud. It is clear the american people can not hold any confidence in this travesty of a ‘justice’ department.
Makes complete sense. If 8000 people are paying the fines (tax) levied, that’s a boat-load of cash for the state’s coffers. Compare that to getting a potential bullet in the head, complements of the high ranking banking members, the choice is obvious.