The measure of corruption of our government...

[Charles]

... can best be seen in the fact that there's been virtually no prosecution of financial insiders who've manipulated and helped create this current and disastrous economic climate we're dealing with.

Read this article that's just been published in the New York Times...

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In financial crisis, no prosecutions of top figures

Lack of legal action stands in stark contrast to the 1980s' S&L scandal

By Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story
The New York Times
4/14/2011

It is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted?

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