“The European Union’s new law giving people a “right to be forgotten,” which requires Google to remove links to information about them, is having exactly the effect its critics predicted: It is censoring the internet, giving new tools that help the rich and powerful (and ordinary folk) hide negative information about them, and letting criminals make their histories disappear.” – Google Is Being Forced To Censor The History Of Merrill Lynch — And That Should Terrify You
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“before 2001, the FBI had more than one thousand agents assigned to investigating financial frauds, but after September 11 many of these agents were shifted to antiterrorism work.” – The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted? by Jed S. Rakoff
“It does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute—if you do bring a criminal charge—it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.” – Eric Holder testifying to congress and quoted in The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted? by Jed S. Rakoff