Forum Post: Why not SUE 'them'!?
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 2, 2011, 5:09 a.m. EST by TheMAX
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Why not SUE the Criminally Culpable of the 1%!? Bernie Madoff fell in Criminal Court. I would think that our Civil Courts system could bring the 'guilty' to their knees even easier than in Criminal Court! Think about it... the scams may in-time disappear if the culprit schemers are held accountable. (i.e. It's an everyday thing that another Drug Company joins a growing list of Respondent Litigants. Why not add those who steal our money?)
Bill Black @ #occupywallstreet on Arresting Banksters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJe7O-3QBc&feature=player_embedded
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William Black: Not With A Bang, But A Whimper: Bank Of America’s Derivatives Death Rattle
http://dailybail.com/home/william-black-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-bank-of-americas.html
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Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street A Counter to White-Collar Fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq-sO_uNaFw
(DemocracyNow!) Amy Goodman interviews William Black, a white-collar criminologist, former financial regulator, and author of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One." Black teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and recently took part in Occupy Kansas City.
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Because the rule of law is the principle behind the courts, and moneyed interests wrote much of that rule of law. Moneyed interests also have significantly influenced the arbiters of the court system - from elected judges to the Supreme Court.
There are parts of the system (the Constitution, which vests authority in "We, the People," and voting as our expression of that authority) we can use to fix other parts of the system (the courts and the rule of law) that we'd like to use to get justice. But the process has to happen in proper order.
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because they did not actually do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
Federal charges need to be brought, using RICO. We could sue them forever and they would never even feel it, save for but an itch.
The only problem with this, is that they can buy the lawyers. But I would support a class action suit by the people towards the scum that made this economic crisis an unfortunate reality.
Get the right lawyers behind this, could work.
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