Hårde ord fra en afgående advokat fra SEC(Security and Exchange Commission eller Swindlers Encouragement Committee..) i USA.
Store og magtfulde finansvirksomheder får lidt småbøder men der er ingen egentlige undersøgelser eller retssager.
Troen på at en statslig organisation på nogen måde yder beskyttelse mod snyd og svindel giver udelukkende falsk tryghed.
Kidney said his superiors were more focused on getting high-paying jobs after their government service than on bringing difficult cases. The agency’s penalties, Kidney said, have become “at most a tollbooth on the bankster turnpike.”...
“I have had bosses, and bosses of my bosses, whose names we all know, who made little secret that they were here to punch their ticket,” Kidney said. “They mouthed serious regard for the mission of the commission, but their actions were tentative and fearful in many instances.”
