{"id":187347,"date":"2013-03-31T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/31\/i-want-to-be-an-icelander\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T02:47:00","slug":"i-want-to-be-an-icelander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/31\/i-want-to-be-an-icelander\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to be an Icelander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/people\/iceland-indicts-bankers-over-financial-crisis-1057928-1.html\">indict their banksters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Public frustration has been mounting over the lack of high-profile  criminal prosecutions in the wake of the financial crisis here in the  U.S. But the same cannot be said abroad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Several news outlets  reported that Iceland&#8217;s special prosecutor, hired in 2009 to investigate  suspicious activities at several major banks, indicted fifteen bankers \u2014  including two chief executives \u2014 earlier this month over illegal  activity tied to the meltdown of the country&#8217;s banking system in the  fall of 2008. The bankers are accused of stock-price manipulation and  securities fraud.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;These are quite big cases by any measurement, they&#8217;re my biggest cases so far,&#8221; Olafur Thor Hauksson, the prosecutor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/people\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324103504578376484272789580.html\">told the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a> last Friday, adding that the charged could face up to six years in prison if convicted.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Some  blogs reacted to the news with the observation that Iceland&#8217;s actions are in contrast to the lack of prosecutions in the U.S.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you think it&#8217;s a contrast?<\/p>\n<p>Our it is a mark of our corruption that not one of the big banksters has even been seriously investigated for crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they indict their banksters: Public frustration has been mounting over the lack of high-profile criminal prosecutions in the wake of the financial crisis here in the U.S. But the same cannot be said abroad.Several news outlets reported that Iceland&#8217;s special prosecutor, hired in 2009 to investigate suspicious activities at several major banks, indicted fifteen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187347"}],"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=187347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}