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In reply to the discussion: Kamala Harris [View all]honest.abe
(8,674 posts)70. Here is a good discussion of the "Harris did not prosecute Mnuchin" issue..
On the OneWest issue, its a misnomer (ie, lie) that Harris didnt prosecute Mnuchin. He was never under investigation, and Harris didnt receive a referral to criminally prosecute anyone. What she got was a recommendation to file a civil enforcement action against OneWest. In such a filing, no one person is accused of anything. Instead, an entire company is looked at, and perhaps fined for wrongdoing.
So why didnt she file the action? Well, Senator Harris isnt exactly free to openly discuss that, because we dont openly discuss investigations. Its not appropriate to discuss partial evidence, suspicions, or rumors. This harms the party under investigation, who has a right to a presumption of innocence.
But the reasons this didnt go anywhere are likely far simpler. The civil enforcement action requested by the consumer law division would have potentially fined OneWest in order to encourage them to fix their internal issues. Those fines would have been entirely passed on to shareholders. Sen. Harris likely saw no reason to invest time and energy in pursuing fines to be levied on people already losing their shirts, just so that OneWest would be encouraged to shape up, when the recession was ensuring banks were going to be forced to do that anyway.
So why didnt she file the action? Well, Senator Harris isnt exactly free to openly discuss that, because we dont openly discuss investigations. Its not appropriate to discuss partial evidence, suspicions, or rumors. This harms the party under investigation, who has a right to a presumption of innocence.
But the reasons this didnt go anywhere are likely far simpler. The civil enforcement action requested by the consumer law division would have potentially fined OneWest in order to encourage them to fix their internal issues. Those fines would have been entirely passed on to shareholders. Sen. Harris likely saw no reason to invest time and energy in pursuing fines to be levied on people already losing their shirts, just so that OneWest would be encouraged to shape up, when the recession was ensuring banks were going to be forced to do that anyway.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/21/1827095/-Kamala-Harris-and-the-big-lie-that-she-didn-t-prosecute-Mnuchin
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Thanks Garrett. When someone tries to associate Senator Harris with Manchin, that should tell
still_one
Feb 2019
#63
As Californian I support her because she has the experience, resume and cares about people in all
wasupaloopa
Feb 2019
#6
That issue seems to be one following her but she did recently respond directly to the criticism..
honest.abe
Feb 2019
#24
In my opinion the solution to the problem would be making sure these families have a standard of
liberalnarb
Feb 2019
#42
Maybe the poorer families were more concerned about the other issues that come with being in that
liberalnarb
Feb 2019
#39
Do you have some specifics you can point to? Because I've been somewhat impressed with her, but at
KPN
Feb 2019
#66
While I really don't care for her tough on crime history, you are probably right
Quixote1818
Feb 2019
#44
Not sure i agree with her results in that job, especially pot, not good IMO nt
USALiberal
Feb 2019
#47
I really do not understand the obsession with a candidate's position on pot.
honest.abe
Feb 2019
#48