NO! They should have been thrown in jail for their crimes!
81%
NO! And all the fines should go directly to their victims.
19%
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What should happen is that the people who perpetrated the crime should do time for the crime. AND the company should pay a very stiff penalty. PLUS the perps should have all of their possessions sold to offset the penalty.....no hiding in your husband's/wife's/children's name. Oh dear.....the perp's family is now living in a cardboard box under a freeway?! I guess that perp should have thought of that. The perp's family should then be glad there is assistance that hasn't YET been gutted by the republicOns.
Until such time as -the- =people= running these banks, that is, the ones making these decisions, are =personally= held accountable for these crimes, by personally paying staggering fines =and= spending many years in prison (and that does -not- mean =any= type of "Club Fed"), until that happens on a regular basis, =nothing= will change, period, full stop. These people are deliberately making these decisions and hiding behind the fiction of corporate 'personhood'. When they start wearing "prison orange", the public and their peers in the industries will start paying attention. But =until= then .. .. this entire issue is considered a joke by the banks and the =people= =who= =run= =them=!
A crime is a crime. Police have a meaningless job if,
The law is worthless if some people are held to different standards.
Is just the cost of doing business. Wait businesses are people????? More trick laws.
No wonder the rest of the world thinks our word is a joke.
Its a shame the only fairness would be if Obama did another executive order.
Yet 90% of the peoples opion is ignored,corrupt corrupt corrupt.
There should not be fines, if a company is being run illegally it should be absolved.
Game over Thats the cost of running any other illegal business.
All they said above PLUS bring back the Sherman Anti-Trust Act POWERFULLY! Break up these banks and let smaller credit unions and local banks thrive in their communities instead of these McBanks serving us crap sandwiches.
All I can add is that there are two sets of justice. One type for the 99% of us, and the other is a slap on the wrist, a wag of the finger and/or some ridiculous fines that never matches the extent of the damage done. We need to VOTE out the rethugs and remember that while it would be nice to live in an Utopic America, we have only two parties. They are NOT the same but the toxic sludge of corruption has enveloped both parties and many of the Democrats are trying and have been trying to swim to the top of the cess pool. When one votes for a third or fourth party, etc. the vote you cast becomes a win to the republican side and they are ALL too extreme for this country's Democracy!