“…too big to fail has become too big for trial”

USA Senator Elizabeth Warren  at her first Senate banking committee hearing: “…tell me a little bit about the last time you’ve taken the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street all the way to trial. Anybody?”

Check the answers in the video.

“You know, I just want to note on this. There are district attorneys and U.S. attorneys who are out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds. And taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I’m really concerned that too big to fail has become too big for trial. That just seems wrong to me.”

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