Via: Rolling Stone:
If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever
spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket
or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and
longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me.
Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the
British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary
person who’s ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite
the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for
Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host
of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With
the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue
criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a “record”
financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is
about five weeks of income for the bank.
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