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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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