{"id":18490,"date":"2014-10-20T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18490"},"modified":"2014-10-20T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:49:35","slug":"not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-doj-says-it-cannot-prosecute-rocket-science-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/10\/20\/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-doj-says-it-cannot-prosecute-rocket-science-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Not with a Bang but a Whimper: DOJ Says it Cannot Prosecute \u201cRocket Science\u201d Frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Economic Perspectives<\/em> has the article<a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2014\/10\/bang-whimper-doj-says-prosecute-rocket-science-frauds.html#\" title=\"New Economic Perspectives article\" target=\"_blank\"> Not with a Bang but a Whimper: DOJ Says it Cannot Prosecute \u201cRocket Science\u201d Frauds<\/a>.  The starting point for this article is a discussion of the interview with <em>Bloomberg News<\/em> of departing Deputy Attorney General James Cole.  The conclusion ends with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCole (and Lanny Breuer and Holder, and Obama \u2013 all lawyers) never even thought in these terms.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThey all failed to even try to do their duty.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Maybe my distaste for Obama and his team is a result of reading too many articles like this one by William K. Black.  My disappointment with so much of Obama&#8217;s administration is exactly &#8220;They all failed to even try to do their duty.&#8221;  Failing against strong opposition is forgivable, if you at least try. Not trying is the unforgivable part.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Obama&#8217;s legacy will be &#8220;He didn&#8217;t even try&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Economic Perspectives has the article Not with a Bang but a Whimper: DOJ Says it Cannot Prosecute \u201cRocket Science\u201d Frauds. The starting point for this article is a discussion of the interview with Bloomberg News of departing Deputy Attorney General James Cole. The conclusion ends with the following: Cole (and Lanny Breuer and Holder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18491,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18490\/revisions\/18491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}