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Subscribe to commentsrael216Nov 5th 2010 7:29AM
Let's see how much more severely he gets punished than the scumbags who destroyed our economy who didn't get punished at all, as a matter of fact I know one that got rewarded. He had run fro A.I.G. to take a job out of New York, the Government paid him 7.6 million to go back to A.I.G. a little more than a year later even though he was named in at least three different book as one of the main scum who came up with the "formula" to make him and his Wall Street buddies rich by selling high risk mortgages to banks and other huge investors worldwide. They all got rich when the bubble popped again by betting against the same investment crap they sold the bank's and pensions and other huge investors and not one will ever do a day in jail. This guy will get life because he is a lowly dock worker. How dare he pull what the Wall Street scum pull every day.