Forum Post: Those who are responsible need to be charged with fraud! ASAP. Will send a message to the rest
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 25, 2011, 10:34 p.m. EST by rushhoursnooze
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I have seen some great suggestions for "demands" here but I would put this one at the top of my list: The government must investigate, charge and sentence for fraud all the CEOs and other members of the financial industry who acted illegally and created this disaster, God knows there is enough evidence to go around. If you don't penalize this bastards, you will be sending the wrong message and only encourage them to do this again sooner or later, only with a different flavor so no one will see it coming once again.
The government will not do this as they are not our employees as much as they are theirs. The government wrote the rules these CEOs operated under. And as Obama himself said, what these companies did was "mostly" legal. Which, apparently, is close enough.
What we need is to separate the two completely. Wall Street and Washington need to get out the bed together.