Hillary Clinton Made More in 12 Speeches to Big Banks Than Most of Us Earn in a Lifetime

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68. The facts are Eric Holder prosecuted less white collar crime than his predecessors.

One can make all the technical legal excuses for him one wants.

I understand it's difficult. But still. The results speak for themselves:

US Prosecution of White Collar Crime Hits 20-Year Low: Report

Federal prosecution of white-collar crime has hit a 20-year low, according to a new report on Department of Justice data. The analysis of thousands of records by Syracuse University shows a more than 36 percent decline in such prosecutions since the middle of the Clinton administration, when the decline first began.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, prosecutions ticked up slightly, but then dropped. Landing amid calls from Democratic presidential candidates for more Wall Street prosecutions, the report notes that the projected number of prosecutions this year is 12 percent less than last year and 29 percent less than five years ago.

“The decline in federal white-collar crime prosecutions does not necessarily indicate there has been a decline in white-collar crime,” Syracuse researchers note. “Rather, it may reflect shifting enforcement policies by each of the administrations and the various agencies.”...

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-prosecution-white-collar-crime-hits-20-year-low-report-2037160

Hell. It was Holder that admitted part of his reasoning was thy were too big to jail:

“I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy,” Holder said, according to The Hill. “And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/eric-holder-banks-too-big_n_2821741.html

For me it's pretty obvious Eric Holder chose to go soft on prosecuting bank crimes. You don't get welcome backed to a job defending bank crimes if you are the one that helped hurt the banks. It's not that hard to figure out.