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Justice Dept: Vote won't alter crimefighting
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK | Thu Nov 4, 2010 12:59pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The big Republican gains during the midterm elections will not change the Obama administration's approach to prosecuting crime, a top Justice Department official said on Thursday, amid criticism the department has been slow to prosecute Wall Street.
"We're going to do nothing differently," Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's criminal division, said on the sidelines of a Practising Law Institute conference on enforcement and the financial crisis.
"What we're doing is absolutely apolitical," he continued. "The prosecution of crimes is apolitical. That has zero to do with the composition of Congress."
Lawmakers and others have questioned the lack of prosecution of top Wall Street executives who many Americans believe deserve to be held more responsible for the financial crisis.
Justice Dept: Vote won't alter crimefighting | Reuters
There's no doubt why the top Wall Street executives weren't prosecuted. Just look at Obama's 2008 donor list.
Top Contributors
Senator Barack Obama 2007 - 2008
University of California.....$909,283
Goldman Sachs................$874,207 <-------Sub Prime investments
Harvard University...........$717,230
Microsoft Corp...............$714,108
Google Inc...................$701,099
JPMorgan Chase & Co..........$581,460 <-------Sub Prime investments
Citigroup Inc................$581,216 <-------Sub Prime investments
National Amusements Inc......$543,859
Time Warner..................$508,148
Sidley Austin LLP............$492,445
Stanford University..........$481,199
Skadden, Arps et al,,,,,,,,,,$473,424
Wilmerhale Llp...............$466,679
UBS AG.......................$454,795 <-------Sub Prime investments
Latham & Watkins.............$426,924
Columbia University..........$426,516
Morgan Stanley...............$425,102 <-------Sub Prime investments
IBM Corp.....................$415,196
University of Chicago........$414,555
US Government................$400,819
Top Contributors to Barack Obama | OpenSecrets
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure what's going on. Add that to the lack or prosecution of the NBP case and you have a very political Justice Dept.