Le crime originel, c'était le bailout de Wall Street... Mais comme ceci a été fait le plus légalement du monde avec la complicité de politiciens débiles et/ou corrompus et/ou paniqués, il ne lui arrivera strictement rien à la mafia...
| Le President de Goldman Sachs fera-t-il de la prison? |
Le Monde, Georges Ugeux, 15/04/2011 (en Français )
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La question posée est de savoir si les dirigeants de Goldman Sachs ont été parjures. En effet, une déposition au Congres se fait sous serment. Or le rapport a détecté des contre-vérités dans ces déclarations au vu des documents qu’il a examinés, et réunis dans un rapport de 400 pages. Si tel est le cas, les dirigeants de Goldman Sachs qui ont déposé pourraient être passibles de poursuites pénales. Le Senat a envoyé le dossier a la SEC et au Ministère de la Justice.
Ce qui ressortait dans les medias, y compris conservateurs, c’est une question lancinante : combien de dirigeants de Wall Street coupables de la crise financière se sont-ils retrouvés en prison ? Zéro. Lloyd Blankfein semble être devenu l’homme à abattre et il pourrait en effet, si le Ministère de la Justice le poursuit pour parjure, se retrouver pour quelques temps en prison.
Cela peut étonner en Europe : aux États-Unis, le signe distinctif d’une fraude sérieuse dans la finance est la prison. On semble être à quelques doigts d’une tele action. Ce sera aux avocats du Ministre de la Justice de déterminer si les preuves sont suffisantes.
En même temps, nous apprenons que la SEC va annoncer les amendes imposées à plusieurs institutions financières pour leurs actions qui ont provoqué la crise. Ces amendes seront-elles suffisantes pour être considérées comme crédibles ? La SEC a une tendance à être généreuse sur ces sanctions financières.
Matt Taïbi sur CNN :
| Matt Taibbi "Justice Department Has No Appetite To Take ANY Cases Against Wall Street Executives" |
CNN, 14/04/2011 (traduire en Français )
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| Goldman Is “A Perfectly Designed Machine for Making Money,” William Cohan Says |
Yahoo Tech ticker, 15/04/2011 (traduire en Français )
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It's a ruthless, Darwinian place, in which time horizons are limited -- older partners are routinely booted out — and executives are always scheming against one another. It's less like CNBC and more like The Borgias. Cohan highlights how the firm, generation after generation, transforms outsiders with obscure backgrounds into wealthy establishmentarians.
One contradiction emerges. Many of the top executives, while at Goldman, maintained auras of hyper-competency and success. And while many ex-Goldman bosses have gone on quietly to mint money at hedge funds, several other alumni haven't exactly covered themselves in glory post-Goldman -- i.e. Robert Rubin at Citi, Jon Corzine in politics, John Thain at Merrill and Henry Paulson at Treasury -- leading readers to question whether there is something about Goldman, Sachs that endows its employees with extra powers.
The difference between Goldman and other firms is precisely the attribute that got it into trouble by, for example, shorting mortgages even as it was peddling them to its clients.
Et sur le parjure, ZH avait vu juste à l'époque :
| On Goldman's CDS Market Manipulation |
ZeroHedge, 14/04/2011 (traduire en Français )
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Exactly a year ago, Zero Hedge penned "The Client Always Comes First At Goldman... Except When He Doesn't, Which Is Also Always" which was a review of Goldman's mark manipulation practices particularly as pertains to the OTC domain (read CDS) by going through self-evaluation reviews of the 4 key Goldman trades involved in the Abacus scandal (we would call it crime, but remember: Goldman neither admitted nor denied guilt). As a reminder, in April 2010 we said: "The line penned by Michael, who incidentally was the least like of the three Goldman SPG MDs testifying on Tuesday based on peer feedback, that broke pour collective heart is the following: "Once the stress in the mortgage market started filtering into the cash market, I spent numerous hours on conference calls with clients discussing valuation methodologies for GS issued transactions in the subprime and second lien space [redacted] is prime example). I said "no" to clients who demanded that GS should "support the GSAMP" program as clients tried to gain leverage over us. Those were unpopular decisions but they saved the firm hundreds of millions of dollars." Alas, we find that all of Goldman's sincere hypocritical lies before the Senate committee were... precisely just that." This post was followed up by "Goldman Implicated In CDS Price Manipulation Scandal" which essentially recapitulated all the salient points from the first time. Today, with about a full year delay, Bloomberg's Christine Harper and Joshua Gallu realize that there was more than meets the eye to these very disingenuous revalations of impropriety by the very traders who were conducting them, and finally bring much needed broader attention to the matter in "Goldman Traders Attempted to Manipulate Market in 2007, Senate Report Says." Frankly, it's about time.
Ça commence à se tendre autour de Goldman Sachs...
Et en bonus, histoire d'épicer encore un peu, le taux d'imposition marginal aux USA :
| US Tax Rates, 1916-2010 |
The Big Picture, 15/04/2011 (traduire en Français )
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