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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 08:52 AM Jun 2016

'Sheriff of Wall Street' Says 'People Are Right' About System Being Rigged

This election year has exposed widespread voter anger directed at Wall Street, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara agrees that "to an extent, people are right about the system being rigged."

"I think people have a right...given the track record of this office and other offices of exposing fraud, to be worried about that," Bharara told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

That track record of rooting out fraud has earned Bharara the nickname "Sheriff of Wall Street," but he has also set his sights on the corruption plaguing New York's state capital. Since taking office, he's prosecuted cases against more than a dozen state officeholders.

"We have found that corruption is rife in a lot of institutions in New York and throughout New York. That's true in the legislature," he said. "It's also the case that there's corruption, we believe, in the executive branches as well. And we'll ferret it out wherever we find it."


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'Sheriff of Wall Street' Says 'People Are Right' About System Being Rigged (Original Post) Triana Jun 2016 OP
Should be like shooting fish in a bowl with a 12 gauge shotgun! Dustlawyer Jun 2016 #1
"We have found that corruption is rife..." Equinox Moon Jun 2016 #2
so, when will some of the heads at the very TOP start rolling? ha ha ha Gabi Hayes Jun 2016 #4
gonna be some damn busy ferrets! . . . . . .n/t annabanana Jun 2016 #5
People were right? Chasstev365 Jun 2016 #3
This is a topic every Democrat should agree with. It's not political, its economic in nature. floriduck Jun 2016 #6

Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
1. Should be like shooting fish in a bowl with a 12 gauge shotgun!
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 08:56 AM
Jun 2016

There is so much fraud since their whole business model is fraud. As for the legislatures, there is so much quid pro quo going on you could just arrest them all and be ok!

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
2. "We have found that corruption is rife..."
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 10:08 AM
Jun 2016
"We have found that corruption is rife in a lot of institutions in New York and throughout New York. That's true in the legislature," he said. "It's also the case that there's corruption, we believe, in the executive branches as well. And we'll ferret it out wherever we find it."
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People experience injustices everywhere, even without knowing the particulars. It is so widespread.
 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
4. so, when will some of the heads at the very TOP start rolling? ha ha ha
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 10:33 AM
Jun 2016

he's a 'crusader,' but how's come nobody of note at any of the banks or wall street raider firms, hedge funds, etc., have had anything happen to them on the order of, even Martha Stewart

put a few of them in San Quentin and see what happens

 

floriduck

(2,262 posts)
6. This is a topic every Democrat should agree with. It's not political, its economic in nature.
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 11:17 AM
Jun 2016

I hope other Hillary supporters will agree.

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