with a $250,000 fine for the company if I shipped the smallest trinket of high alloy (titanium, zirc, etc.) to Iran, much less laundering who-knows-how-much money for them.

I've about had it with immunity for the banksters but hell to pay for the rest of us. Holder is about as useful as the dried dog shit I found on my shoe this morning.

The dried dog shit could be used as fertilizer...which makes it much more useful then Holder will ever be!

in our economy that doing so would "hurt" too many others, it's not just a dark day for law and order, as the NYT says. In a secretive, criminal, treasonous, bread and circus, society where an entire class is above the law, what is good, beautiful and true is subversive, and true patriots are beaten, harassed and jailed.

We are a scofflaw banking system and a dictatorial military regime. We have to face that bankers are a criminal class and Ayn Rand has won. Then act accordingly.

....frozen their funds first, and then dropped a laser-guided bomb on the bank HQ along with every single one of the bank's branch locations.

Gee, that must ready hurt.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021963678

The bank's shareholders will be footing the bill, not those who are responsible...no money from the pockets of those who made the decisions to aide and abet terrorists and drug cartels!

Florida GOP governor Rick Scott's medical company was found guilty of 17 felonies defrauding Medicare of $1.7 Billion - and fined over $600 million, the largest fraud settlement in US history. That's over a billion in profit.

They sit in a cell, their time and wages fully controlled by the government. I think that a guilty plea or verdict for a corporation should lead to a period where the corporation's profit-per-hour is not allowed to exceed that of the highest incarcerated inmate, the difference going to the jurisdiction administering justice in the case. The government would also appoint a trustee to oversee the Board of directors for the period of the punishment, whose job is to prevent any Board action to defer profit and reverse any Board policies specifically aimed at preemptively minimizing the effect of the sentence.

I think this approach punishes those ultimately responsible: the shareholders. Large shareholders have a responsibility to make sure the corporation is acting rightly. Small shareholders should get out of their position if the company behaves badly.

Shareholders don't make day to day operating decisions...besides this "fine" will be coming out of what the shareholders would be getting...the deciders don't pay a dime for the crimes they committed...so in a way the shareholders are being punished!

drugs walk around free?

was busted back in the 80s (during the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION), every other Wall St. exec was hiding under their desk literally cowering in terror with the thought of becoming the next "most hated man in America"!

K&R.

And suffer no consequences from their law breaking.
Just like the super rich and their rethug lackeys.

Swell.

that HBSC is the only bank doing money laundering for drug cartels.