Comments on: Disgraced Financier Arrested In Virginia

R. Allen Stanford Surrendered To FBI Agents, Accused Of Running Massive Ponzi Scheme

[billpl-2009]

one of the few nice things about a recession

the big fat piggies got nowhere to hide

[riob678]

'Financier', once a haughty but respectable word, now means 'a sleazy thief in an Armani suit.'

[maxcoffee-2009]

Kanaduh-eh...
Do you care about Ken Lay of Enron giving 50,000 grand for bushes second inaugural ball. Or the $122,500 he contributed to Bush's gubernatorial campaigns in Texas.
Probably not... Eh?

[maxcoffee-2009]

But alas... right wingers don't understand that there are bad people on both sides.
A criminal is a criminal...

[ubrew12]

Support single payer health care. It cost HALF what our current disastrous system costs, and provides BETTER healthcare, for EVERYBODY.

I'm posting here because CBS is afraid to post any story related to the most important issue of our day (other than the Wall Street craziness), which is the healthcare issue.

[rhs648]

CBS pays for and sponsors this website. As such, they can make the rules. Keep it up and you may be banned from their site. When you start paying for the website, you can make the rules.

[whitemale08]

So Wall Street/City of London throws you a few crumbs like Stanford and Madoff.

This is all to distract us from the real criminals, which is the Hank Paulson/Tim Gheitner/Ben Bernanke/Larry Summers and the owners of the banks that frauded the taxpayer with bailing trillions in worthless derivatives and credit-default swaps namely Goldman Sucks/JP Morgan.

[bajajohn1]

You are right, but they had legitimacy on their side.

[zonkzilla]

And yet the CEO's of the failed banks and Wall Street firms that did exactly the same things to a lot more people did not get arrested, they got free bailout money and golden parachutes.
I find that odd.

[bajajohn1]

You are right, but they had legitimacy on their side.

[Toyota286]

how are the mighty fallen !! look how many they take down with them !!
every day bucket goes to well one day the bottom will fall out

[ubrew12]

I guess he wasn't 'too big to fail'