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Ben Bernanke calls for prosecutions of top financial execs over 2008 meltdown

Sunday, October 4, 2015 22:03
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who led the US through the financial meltdown of 2008, said that top financial executives should have been prosecuted for their role in creating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Speaking to USA Today, Bernanke blamed the US Justice Department for going after the firms instead of focusing on the individuals who had been running huge American corporations.

“It would have been my preference to have more investigation of individual action, since obviously everything that went wrong or was illegal was done by some individual, not by an abstract firm,” Bernanke said in the interview …. http://www.rt.com/usa




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