"The ego and the narcissism of these people - they're unable to acknowledge fault... We were interviewing Treasury Secretary [Timothy] Geithner... I asked 'What is one thing you think you did wrong,' and his response was, 'We underestimated how right we were about everything'. And that's the mentality."
- Neil Barofsky
- Neil Barofsky
Elizabeth Warren to bank regulators:
"If they can break the law and drag in BILLIONS in profits and then turn around and settle - paying out of those profits - they don't have much incentive to follow the law."
"Tell me a little bit about the last few times you've taken the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street all the way to a trial. [pause] ...Anybody?"
Occupy Wall Street Protesters arrested: THOUSANDS
Homes Foreclosed on by Bailed-Out-Banks: MILLIONS!
Fed Cash SECRETLY funneled to banks on top of TARP: $16 TRILLION
(more than the U.S. annual GDP - or the nation's TOTAL debt)
U.S. Bankers arrested for perpetrating the financial crimes: 0 (ZERO)
