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New York Magazine: The Stench of the Potomac
PBS: The Untouchables
The Guardian: The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions
Inc: The Payoff named one of the ‘Top 5 Business Books of 2012′
The New York Times: How to Read Like a Political Reporter
The New Yorker: Washington Man
National Review: When It Comes to Wall Street, Obama Administration Still Won’t Bite Hand That Feeds It
Current: Will it take another financial meltdown to clean up Wall Street?
Bloomberg: Connaughton: So Much Time Is Spent on Reelection
NPR: Time Is Running Out To File Suits Over 2008 Crisis
New Economic Perspectives: The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Win
The Daily Beast: How the Government Failed to Fix Wall Street
Bloomberg Businessweek: A Washington Whistle-Blower Tells All
Wall Street Journal: ‘The Payoff’: Wall Street Wins, Again
Forbes: Jeff Connaughton’s “The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins” A Book Review
Rolling Stone: A Rare Look at Why The Government Won’t Fight Wall Street
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The New Republic: The Man Who Took on the Wall Street Blob
Reuters: Weak U.S. legal oversight puts burden on compliance pros to protect their firms
McClatchy: Why the middle class is in trouble: Washington and Wall Street
The Huffington Post: One Man Against The Wall Street Lobby
Corporate Crime Reporter: Payoff in the Pit of Plutocracy
The New York Times: Why Does Wall Street Always Win
The Illuminati: Former Biden Staffer’s New Book Suggests The Justice Department Was Hardly Thinking About Going After Wall Street
Business Insider: Here’s How Wall Street Finds Out Exactly What’s Going On In Congress All The Time
Politico: Morning Money First
The Recovering Politician: EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT: Jeff Connaughton’s “The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins”
Jeff on The Huffington Post
Where Are the Cops on Wall Street?
This post is adapted from a speech delivered Nov. 2, 2010, to more than 300 financial regulators and Wall Street executives during a panel discussion entitled “Financial Crisis and Financial Crimes” at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Obama and the Rule of Law
Long silent and now contradictory, President Obama needs to deliver a clarifying speech about our financial markets and the rule of law. Speaking in Kansas on December 6, he said, “Too often, we’ve seen Wall Street firms violating major anti-fraud laws because the penalties are too weak and there’s no price for being a repeat offender.”
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The Glacial Response of the S.E.C. to the Rise of High-Speed Trading and Market Volatility
It’s bad enough that the Justice Department never indicted a single Wall Street executive for the fraud associated with the financial crisis, leaving it to the S.E.C. to wrist-slap a few financiers. Now, after a year in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average gyrated drunkenly, it’s obvious where lax enforcement is taking us.
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Videos
Connaughton: So Much Time Is Spent on Reelection
The Rise of the Investor Super PAC: Jeff C. on WSJ Live
Why Wall Street Always Wins: Jeff C. on WSJ Live
The Daily Show: Ted Kaufman says America’s founders designed the Senate to be the place where everything stopped.
THE PAYOFF: Why Wall