Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
by flexie on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:33PM
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Lawyers should be responsible to their clients, not serve as an extra layer of tax informants. Governments already have hundreds of thousands in their employ. And please spare your hypocracy remarks for someone you know.
Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
by AndrewKemendo on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:30PM
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Lawyers should be responsible to their clients, not serve as an extra layer of tax informants.
I was under the impression this is how it worked eg. that lawyers' only responsibility are to their client. Otherwise you would get some kind of weird conflict of interest in every case.
Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
by judk on Monday December 23, 2013 @02:25PM
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Lawyers are partly agents of the government. The alternative would be to make private lawyering illegal and to require all lawyer-type work to be done at goverenment offices.
Re: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
by moocowduckquack on Monday December 23, 2013 @07:31PM
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If one were to adopt the position that it is the responsibility of business to prevent fraud
Well, it is the responsibility of HSBC to prevent criminal fraud by HSBC, which is one of the charges they plead guilty to in their plea bargain.
If one were to adopt the position that it is the responsibility of business to prevent fraud, well, you have a unique ability to do that that no other institution has. This is why I think your post is hypocrisy. Banks aren't lawyers, they don't know your clients like you do, and if you adopt the principle that "people should be responsible for the actions of their customers", you're going to have a significant amount of responsibility that nobody else can handle.