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Re:Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financia... by harryh on Saturday December 16, 2017 @03:17PM (#15941758)
GP didn't ask about the most requested law. He asked for some examples of laws that, if they had been on the books in the financial crisis era but were prevented from being there by lobbying, would have ended up with people in prison due to their actions.

He didn't say anything about "being presented to the legislature." As you make clear, the actual legislative votes aren't really all that important compared to everything that comes before that point.

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Re:Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financia... by avar on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:07PM (#15942449)
That request is just rhetorical grandstanding. There's no way for anyone to know what laws would have been realistically proposed and passed if the universe wasn't in the state that it's currently in.

If you attempted to collate such a list you'd end up with an infinite amount of garbage, including but not limited to a proposed law that anyone suspected of wrongdoing be beheaded.

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Re:Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financia... by harryh on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:36PM (#15942613)
marricks asserted that no one went to jail because bankers hire lobbyists to make sure that laws are written in such a way as to make the jailing of bankers impossible.

Asking for a specific example of when that has happened isn't rhetorical grandstanding, it's just asking for evidence to support a claim.

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