Boggles the mind that John Edwards is indicted while not one indictment for the crooks who took down

[xiamiam]

the middle class or the war profiteers..a crime is a crime but gheezh..in the big picture, this is small potatoes

[RKP5637]

1. He's an easier target. n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

14. He made himself an easier target. n/t

[RKP5637]

16. Yep, he sure did that!!! n/t

[liskddksil]

2. Probably because he said things like this about the corporate lobbyists

"You give them a seat at the table they eat all the food"

[QC]

10. I believe you are absolutely correct. n/t

[Ignis]

19. +1

The greatest crime is discussing the emperor's wardrobe.

[nichomachus]

3. The lesson is

Oppose the corporatocracy and you will be ruined.

Play ball with the power elite and you can get away with anything you want. We are a banana republic.

[Octafish]

4. How about the traitors who lied America into two illegal, immoral and disastrous wars of agression?

Check -- make that three wars.

K&R, xiamiam. Thank you for an excellent OP and thread.

[hugo_from_TN]

5. Not true, but truth never stops a good DU rant.

http://www.wallstreetswindler.com/category/securities-fraud/

http://www.wallstreetswindler.com/category/mortgage-fraud/

[Angry Dragon]

6. How about the big names

Unless you think these little people had the power to control the markets........

[KittyWampus]

7. the "Big Names" are usually smart enough to stay within the law but bend it as far as possible OR

they buy off legislators to rewrite the rules in their favor.

Seriously.

John Edwards was an idiot.

[Township75]

8. John Edwards isn't a big name either, ya know.

He is now pretty much a nobody exposed for what he is.

It would be nice to see everyone guilty of crimes to be tried for them, but even if some of them are not, it doesn't mean everyone should not be tried.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Very good site and good to see what's happening

I do wonder on sentences on most of the cases ... did they get the max or min?

Anyway thanks for the link you ought to put it out on its own
so more know about it.

[girl gone mad]

17. the Wall Street criminals who caused the financial collapse of have ALL gotten off scott free.

From the http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/business/economy/26nocera.html">New York Times:

In its article about the Justice Department’s decision, The Los Angeles Times said prosecutors had concluded that Mr. Mozilo’s actions “did not amount to criminal wrongdoing.”

Just months earlier, the Justice Department concluded that Joe Cassano shouldn’t take the fall for the financial crisis either. Mr. Cassano, you’ll recall, is the former head of the financial products unit of the American International Group, a man whose enthusiasm for credit-default swaps led, pretty directly, to the need for a huge government bailout of A.I.G. There was a time when it appeared that there was no way the government would let Mr. Cassano walk. But it did.

And then there’s Richard Fuld, the man who presided over Lehman Brothers’ demise. Though he was the subject of an investigation shortly after the Lehman bankruptcy, it appears that prosecutors are moving on.

Most of the other Wall Street bigwigs whose firms took unconscionable risks — risks that nearly brought the global financial system to its knees — aren’t even on Justice’s radar screen. Nor has there been a single indictment against any top executive at a subprime lender.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Unfortunately much of what the pirates on Wall Street did was legal -

barely and sometimes skirting the law. Conversely John Edwards clearly broke the law. Distaste for this inequitable situation is understandable.

[WinkyDink]

12. He didn't even shoot anyone in the face!

[Nye Bevan]

13. Yeah. Why don't they indict Madoff? (nt)

[girl gone mad]

15. Madoff targeted rich people, not the middle class.

He was indicted, tried and convicted in a New York minute.

[xiamiam]

18. exactly..nt

[pacalo]

20. This throws the "we're going to look forward" excuse for not prosecuting Bush/Cheney out the window.