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Re:Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown by Animats on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:57PM (#12194844)
The S&L crisis of the 1980s[1] put hundreds of bankers in jail. The 2008 banking crisis did not. The Administration was squishy-soft on banker crime. It didn't help that the Secretary of the Treasury was from Goldman Sachs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

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