Alexandra Bruce
Forbidden Knowledge TV
February 16, 2011
Why isn’t Wall Street in jail? Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone wanted to find the answer.
One Senate investigation laid out the crisis succinctly: “Everything’s [expletive] up, and nobody goes to jail.”
But one guy did go to jail: Bernie Madoff. In a jailhouse interview, Madoff admitted that the banks “had to know [about the corruption]. But the attitude was sort of, ‘If you’re doing something wrong, we don’t want to know.”
