Open Thread For Night Owls: Big Fines, Little Enforcement For Financial Crooks

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Fri, 09/19/2014 - 8:00pm

Joe Pinsker at The Atlantic writes Financial Criminals Have Been Fined Billions, but They Rarely Pay: On a plane earlier this week, I watched The Wolf of Wall Street. The film’s outsized antics—public masturbation, the tossing of little people, lots and lots of Quaaludes—seemed too big for a seatback screen, or, for that matter, reality.

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