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> A prosecutor, however, is restricted by an evidentiary framework that allows certain facts to only be proved by certain sources, and allows juries to make only certain inferences.

Look - Im not a lawyer - nor would I ever want to be - but what I do know is we saw the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world take place between 2007-2010 and no one has gone to jail for it.

You can say that "A prosecutor, however, is restricted by an evidentiary framework" but that doesnt change the fact that we live in a world where rich powerful people and corporations commit serious crimes and dont go to jail for them.




> we saw the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world take place between 2007-2010

We did? That might be something you believe, but I don't think it's something proven by evidence.


you did too - you just weren't paying attention: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/2008-financial-c...


That link says nothing at all about any sort of transfer of wealth it just says a lot about a bunch of people getting poorer. It's pretty widely acknowledged that the financial crisis revealed that we were not as rich as we thought we were. That's not the same thing as a transfer of wealth.




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