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Has "too big to fail" become "too big for trial" ?

Quote of the Day
February 15, 2013

'What I'd like to know is tell me a little bit about the last few times you've taken the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street all the way to a trial.

'... I appreciate that you say you don't have to bring them to trial. My question is, when did you bring them to trial?"

'... I'm really concerned that "too big to fail" has become "too big for trial".'

Consumer champion, newly elected
Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D - Mass.) questions put to
federal regulators concerning  Wall Street's
biggest banks at a Senate Banking
Committee hearing

 

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