{"id":185015,"date":"2011-11-07T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/07\/quote-of-the-day-193\/"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:43:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/07\/quote-of-the-day-193\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2008\/09\/citibank-must-pay-back-the-14-million-it-stole-from-customers-over-a-decade.html\">Stealing from our customers is a business decision, not a legal decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014\u2014An unnamed Citibank Executive<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You see, Citi was simply taking money from customers when they overpaid their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It was called the &#8220;sweep&#8221; program, and it gets even better:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The same executive later said that the sweep program could not be stopped because it would reduce the executive bonus pool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why are we not not sending these assholes to jail?<\/p>\n<p>I know that I&#8217;m a bit behind on this story, it broke in 2008, but it still raises the question, why aren&#8217;t these people going to jail? Why hasn&#8217;t <b>anyone<\/b> gone to jail?<\/p>\n<p>You can see the California AG&#8217;s PR on this <a href=\"http:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press_release?id=1602\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stealing from our customers is a business decision, not a legal decision. \u2014\u2014An unnamed Citibank Executive You see, Citi was simply taking money from customers when they overpaid their accounts. It was called the &#8220;sweep&#8221; program, and it gets even better: The same executive later said that the sweep program could not be stopped because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}