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"Martin, look at my suit." Lanny Breuer Frontline satire

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Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer on Whistleblowers and Prosecuting Bankers for Fraud (Satire)

Too perfect! It's been up since the end of January, but I just saw this takeoff of Lanny Breuer on Frontline today: Read below the fold...

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The New York Times would rather cover a Breuer chair than cover Lanny Breuer

Literally! And just like the rest of 'em. Which we'll get to. For now, what I want to know is, When is the remarkably unprosecutorial prosecutor Lanny Breuer actually going to start spending more time with his family? Because here he is explaining how Third World-style elite impunity really works in his PBS interview from "The Untouchables":

These sources said that at the weekly indictment approval meetings that there was no case ever mentioned that was even close to indicting Wall Street for financial crimes. [See Professor William R. Black, who successfully prosecuted thousands of bankster executives in the S&L crisis*]

If you look at what we and the U.S. attorney community did, I think you have to take a step back. Over the last couple of years, we have convicted Raj Rajaratnam, one of the largest hedge fund leaders. Now, you’ll say that’s an insider trading case, but it’s clearly going after Wall Street.

But it has nothing to do with the financial crisis, the meltdown, the packaging of bad mortgages that led to the collapse that led to the recession.

[BREUER] First of all, I think that the financial crisis is multifaceted. But even within that, all we can do is look hard at this multifaceted, multipronged problem. And what we’ve had is a multipronged, multifaceted response.

Yeah, multi-pronged. I like that. Jamie and Michael still "doing God's work" on the streets? Yeah? How about Lloyd? Anyhow... Read below the fold...

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