{"id":6001,"date":"2011-04-19T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2011-04-19T15:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:31:51","slug":"we-make-money-the-old-fashioned-way-we-steal-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/04\/19\/we-make-money-the-old-fashioned-way-we-steal-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We Make Money The Old Fashioned Way, We Steal It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Story on the Levin-Coburn Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_audit\/the_levin-coburn_report_covera.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Columbia-Journalism Review<\/strong><\/a> quotes Senator Tom Coburn from the Levin-Coburn report on the financial disaster.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The subcommittee\u2019s findings show \u201cwithout a doubt the lack of ethics in some of our financial institutions who embraced known conflicts of interest to accomplish wealth for themselves, not caring about the outcome for their customers,\u201d said Coburn. \u201cWhen that happens, no country can survive and neither can their financial institutions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember that Senator Tom Coburn is the conservative Republican member of the subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Huffington Post coverage of the story<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on  Investigations, will recommend that Goldman executives who testified  before his panel, including chairman and chief executive Lloyd  Blankfein, be referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal  prosecution, the Michigan Democrat announced Wednesday. Members of the  subcommittee will now deliberate Levin\u2019s proposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbia-Journalism Review quotes Senator Tom Coburn from the Levin-Coburn report on the financial disaster. The subcommittee\u2019s findings show \u201cwithout a doubt the lack of ethics in some of our financial institutions who embraced known conflicts of interest to accomplish wealth for themselves, not caring about the outcome for their customers,\u201d said Coburn. \u201cWhen that [&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-6001","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\/6001","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=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}