“Five years after Lehman fell, taking the global economy along with it, a roll call of Wall Street CEOs serving time for their role in the crisis looks something like this:
“So, yeah. Zero Wall Street CEOs are in jail. But we did promise you a list:
“1. No one.
“2. LOL.
“3. Wall Street’s lawyers are amazing.
“4. Etc. Etc.
“It’s not that federal government tried to prosecute a bunch of them but lost the cases. There were no serious efforts at criminal prosecutions at all.”
***
Read full Washington Post Wonkblog post here