>"The two most glaring abuses, in my mind, were the blackmailing of employees to put their name on a banking industry do-not-hire list if they didn't make sales quotas that proved nearly impossible without the opening of fake accounts."

Are you referring to a U5? That would be ironic because I believe that all of the retail employees that were fired now have a huge red flag on their U5 which means it will really difficult to get a job in the industry going forward.