A banker is going to jail...IN AUSTRALIA for holding a woman hostage with fake bomb.

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You might recall the story of the 18-year-old woman in Australia who was held hostage with a fake bomb strapped around her neck. The AP reports that her captor, Australian investment banker Paul Douglas Peters, has pleaded guilty. Background of the case:

Pulver was alone studying in her family's Sydney mansion 3 August when the 50-year-old Peters, wearing a ski mask and wielding a baseball bat, tethered a bomb-like device around her neck. It took bomb squad police 10 hours to remove it, but it contained no explosives and Pulver was not injured.

The man left behind a note demanding money, along with an email address. New South Wales state police have said surveillance footage showed Peters in several locations where they believe he accessed the email account.

Peters, who travelled frequently between the United States and Australia on business, fled to the US and was arrested at his former wife's home in Louisville, Kentucky, almost two weeks after the crime. He was extradited in September to Australia, where he has remained in custody.

Peters also can get up to 20 years in prison. Meanwhile, US bankers who wrecked the global economy get...a sweetheart settlement deal with the Obama administration?

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1. The guy has to be insane to begin with. Have to wonder if the Family had some sort of connection

with Peters and that is why he did it.


I am under the belief that OUR bankers are so above the law that they could kill someone and get away with it.